From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christopher Allan Webber Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Ideas for a Guile tutorial to go with the new site Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 15:27:19 -0600 Message-ID: <878u5t65mg.fsf@dustycloud.org> References: <87k2qkjh74.fsf@dustycloud.org> <874mghu21n.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447968550 10628 80.91.229.3 (19 Nov 2015 21:29:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 21:29:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel To: Mathieu Lirzin Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 19 22:29:02 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZzWlJ-00020a-BR for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2015 22:29:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44127 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZzWlI-0004b8-NN for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2015 16:29:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59686) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZzWl7-0004S8-P5 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2015 16:28:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZzWl4-00072P-Ht for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2015 16:28:49 -0500 Original-Received: from dustycloud.org ([50.116.34.160]:42035) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZzWl4-00072I-E6; Thu, 19 Nov 2015 16:28:46 -0500 Original-Received: from earlgrey (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dustycloud.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 50172267DD; Thu, 19 Nov 2015 16:28:45 -0500 (EST) In-reply-to: <874mghu21n.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 50.116.34.160 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:18052 Archived-At: Mathieu Lirzin writes: > Hi Christopher, > > Christopher Allan Webber writes: > >> - Intro >> - Getting up and running >> (picture of one of those robots with a wind-up-toy-key on its back?) >> + How to start guile from the command line, add readline support >> + Editor setup, simple >> >> Details how to write some scheme with any editor, maybe makes a >> free software editor recommendation of something simple that's not >> too hard to get going with Scheme. Would GEdit work? > > As much as I appreciate my Emacs environment, I think GEdit + basic REPL > in a terminal is the right choice for presenting Guile. I think it > would be better not explaining how to setup Geiser+Emacs in this > tutorial and just mentioning it by giving a link to separate resource > (which don't exist yet...) for those who are already familiar with > Emacs. That's roughly what I was going for! I figured there would be a very minimal introduction on how to set up a hacking environment with *any* editor, then those who are ready to set up geiser + emacs can figure out how to do it, after being pointed in this direction anyway. >> I'm sure there are other things! But I think a tutorial in this style >> might be fun, and would fit the site well. And the desire for a good >> tutorial has been expressed many times. > > This is definitely a great initiative! > > Thanks, Great, thank you! (I hope I or someone else have time to do it soon...!) - Chris