[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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