Re: Auto-detect Guile in a text editor

[Tk <tk.code@protonmail.com>]

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On Tuesday, 23 October 2018 13:36, Tkprom <tk.code@protonmail.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday, 23 October 2018 13:07, HiPhish hiphish@posteo.de wrote:
>
> > Hello Schemers
> > When I open a Scheme file (Neo)vim the file type is set to "scheme", but I
> > would like to be able to detect that it is not just Scheme, but Guile Scheme.
> > So far I have set up the editor to scan the first line for a shebang and if
> > the word "guile" appears to set the file type to "scheme.guile":
> > if getline(1) =~? '\v^#!.[Gg]uile'
> > let &filetype .= '.guile'
> > endif
> > If you are not familiar with Vim, the important part is the regex
> > '^#!.[Gg]uile'. This works OK, but is there a better way than adding ashebang or some other manual hing to the head of every script? How does Emacs
> > do it?
> > And while I'm at that topic, what is the proper way of writing a shebang when
> > I don't know where Guile is installed to? For example, the Guile manual
> > frequently uses
> > #!/usr/local/bin/guile
> > but what if I have Guile installed via Guix and it is somewhere in my Guix
> > store? A common solution is to abuse env:
> > #!/usr/bin/env guile
> > But now I cannot pass arguments (like '-s') to Guile, because everything
> > following the first space will be treated as one argument to 'env'. Is there a
> > solution or am I just overthinking things?
>
> Hi,
>
> Maybe you could look into how Geiser does it in Emacs. As far as I know, Geiser is a de-facto Guile IDE for Emacs (http://www.nongnu.org/geiser/).
>
> Your approach will only work for the she-banged scripts. For anything else, I suppose there is going to be some guess-work involved. For example, often used Guile constructs are "define-module", #:use-module, use-modules ... they all usually appear at the top. Ditto "ice-9" . Scan top 20-50 lines for those keywords and there is a high probability the Scheme file is a Guile file if it contains any of those.
>
> About your second question: yes, that sucks! This is why i stopped using executable guile scripts and am now just doing:
>
> $ guile my-program.scm options to the program
>
> Perhaps someone else has a better solution.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Tk



One more thing: since the current attempts at standardisation of Scheme language are pushing for uniformity among different implementations (I know, I know, it may never happen), perhaps scanning for dialect-specific usage is not the nicest approach.

I prefer the approach where leaving a comment marker somewhere would activate the required functionality. For example, in Emacs, you could write something like,

 ; -*- mode: Scheme; eval: (whatever-minor-guile-mode-is-used 1); -*- .