[gambit-list] developing with gambit

Marc-André Bélanger marc-andre.belanger at asciimail.com
Wed Jul 26 11:31:39 EDT 2023


On 7/25/23 22:52, Will Senn wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am a new gambit user. I am working through some scheme texts and 
> gambit fits the bill nicely. I am curious as to how most folks develop 
> in gambit. Do you use a terminal and text editor, emacs, or what? So 
> far, I have been using terminal and kate, but it would be nice to have 
> some integration. I was thinking along the lines of what a primitive 
> ide provides where you edit your whatever.scm and then execute it or 
> parts of it on demand from the editor.
>
> I'm a vi guy, so I don't know much about emacs, but folks seem to like 
> that environment, especially when it comes to lisp, et. al. If you're 
> using emacs, and think that's the way to go, please give me a clue 
> where to start. I can M-x run-scheme and it pulls up gambit in a 
> scheme inferior mode (whatever that is) and it'll let me run gambit in 
> the window, but that doesn't seem any  more useful than doing it in 
> terminal.
>
> My current .emacs contains the single line:
> (load (expand-file-name "~/gambit.el"))
>
> where the gambit.el file came from the source I used to build gambit.
>
> If you don't think emacs is the way to go, what do you use? :).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Will
>
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Hi Will,

I use Doom Emacs with vi key bindings (and some Emacs bindings as well). 
I do not use the gambit.el package, just some terminals outside of 
Emacs. This works well for my use-case but I should maybe start using 
proper gambit.el integration...

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Marc-André Bélanger




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