Hello, I am a new user of this list and also of the Scheme programming language. Gambit-c was chosen because of its origin (U de Montreal). The text book I am using is Simply Scheme from Brian Harvey and Matthew Wright of MIT, I have also access to other textbooks on the net. There are also some tutorial and notes at Concordia U., and at various other places on the Net which I am using to learn this Language. Dr.Scheme has also software on the subject, however it is PLT Scheme. My question is : What to use in my .emacs configuration file to use Emacs and where should I place the gambit.el file. I have tried the pllab.el and quack.el files configurations ( with some modifications for gambiit-c. has they are PLT specifics ) but for some reason it tells me that it cannot load my gambit.el file. May be I should stick to PLT Scheme or use Bigloo what do you think ? I am using Debian Sarge for my operation system. I do not have nor do I intend to have Windows. I can use Gambit-c in a terminal but it would be preferable to use Emacs, the configurations found on the Concordia pages for AI 472, either do not work or I am doing it wrong because of lack of experience and knowledge of Emacs. Learning both Emacs and Scheme has quite a learning curve. I would appreciate the help of some knowledgeable people because frankly I am at lost.
Thanks for any amount of help and time you can bring me.
P.S I am willing to learn but do not have the university background which you have, my maths stop at college level and I am no Einstein. I am retired and have all the time in the world however. For you guys I probably am grandpa. Maybe I should have chosen this name instead of Tournesol, but I have used Tournesol for the last 13 years. rcaronr@videotron.ca Richard
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"rcaronr" == rcaronr rcaronr@videotron.ca writes:
rcaronr> My question is : What to use in my .emacs configuration rcaronr> file to use Emacs and where should I place the gambit.el rcaronr> file.
This is really an Emacs question, not a Gambit question, but lucky you, I'm here :-)
I'd put this in my .emacs:
(load (expand-file-name "~/gambit.el"))
and then of course I'd make sure that gambit.el was in my ~ (aka "home") directory.
Note that there are a million other ways to do it, and sophisticated Emacs users probably wouldn't do it quite this way; but this is simple, and it'll work.