Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken REPL Prompt

[felix winkelmann]

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 23:53:42 -0500, Ed Watkeys <address@hidden> wrote:
> Is there a simple way to change the Chicken interpreter prompt ("#;>")?
> Using Chicken in Scheme inferior mode, Emacs thinks every line is a
> comment. Also, if I write a procedure like the following:

(repl-prompt (lambda () "my-prompt> "))

> 
> (define (factorial n)
>    (letrec ((loop
>             (lambda (n sum)
>               (if (= n 0)
>                   sum
>                   (loop (- n 1) (* n sum))))))
>      (loop n 1)))
> 
> The Chicken buffer looks like this if I C-x C-e it from another buffer:
> 
> #;> #;> #;> #;> #;>
> #c.scm#            c-xmlrpc.c         main.c             xmlrpc-g.scm~
> #fetch-images.sh#  c.scm              s.scm              xmlrpc-req
> .#c.scm            c.scm~             xmlrpc             xmlrpc-req.c
> .#fetch-images.sh  fetch-images.sh    xmlrpc-example     xmlrpc.scm
> c-xmlrpc           fetch-images.sh~   xmlrpc-g.scm
> #;>
> #c.scm#            c-xmlrpc.c         main.c             xmlrpc-g.scm~
> #fetch-images.sh#  c.scm              s.scm              xmlrpc-req
> .#c.scm            c.scm~             xmlrpc             xmlrpc-req.c
> .#fetch-images.sh  fetch-images.sh    xmlrpc-example     xmlrpc.scm
> c-xmlrpc           fetch-images.sh~   xmlrpc-g.scm
> #;> #;>
> 
> Yeah, that's tab completion garbage from readline.
> 

I would simply not use readline within emacs. Or am I
misunderstanding something here?


cheers,
felix