Re: Making Emacs know of gsi (gambit-c scheme interpreter)

[Nick Lukashevich]

Ha! :) I found this page 
<https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~gini/1901-07s/emacs_scheme/> on the 
internet and now I can do M-x run-scheme. :) I will just keep 
experimenting. But I would love to know anything you might suggest.

This is from Simply Scheme: Introducing Computer Science. Really fun 
book I am reading :)


   Integrated Editing

The development process can become much more convenient if Scheme and 
the editor "know about" each other. For example, instead of having to 
reload an entire file when you change one procedure definition, it's 
faster if your editor can tell Scheme just the one new definition. There 
are three general approaches to this integration: First, the editor can 
be in overall charge, with the Scheme interpreter running under control 
of the editor. Second, Scheme can be in charge, with the editor running 
under Scheme's supervision. Third, Scheme and the editor can be separate 
programs, both running under control of a third program, such as a 
window system, that allows information to be transferred between them.

If you're using a Unix system, you will be able to take a separate 
editor program and run Scheme from within that editor. The editor can 
copy any part of your program into the running Scheme, as if you had 
typed it to Scheme yourself. We use Jove, a free, small, fast version of 
EMACS. Most people use the more featureful GNU version of EMACS, which 
is installed on most Unix systems and available at 
|ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/| and many mirror sites for download.

Now I can run Scheme interpreter right within Emacs, but I still need to 
load my files to use procedures I define. So how do I achieve the 
integration described above? Thank you! :)

By the way, sorry for sending it as yet another email if that's a bad thing.

On 2020-09-20 21:19, Nick Lukashevich wrote:
> Hello everyone! :)
>
> I am using gambit-c and most of the time I just write my programs 
> directly in the interpreter or using a text editor and loading .scm 
> files in gsi. So I was wondering: how do I integrate the two to edit 
> and run programs at the same time? Thank you!