Re: How to use Emacs with Scheme without tears and joint pain?

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:23:52 -0700 (PDT), fft1976 <fft1976@gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried to use Emacs as suggested in the Gambit manual, and I also
> tried the
> Quack mode. Either I'm not using them right, or they just don't
> provide the functionality I need. I'm not looking for something as
> advanced as SLIME necessarily (which AFAIK only works with Scheme48),
> but at least something like what you get with ELISP:
>
> When you are editing a file, and eval an expression to the REPL, you
> get an answer in the minibuffer (which should temporarily expand if
> necessary) Also, if there is an error, you get a kind of pop-up window
> that's easy to dismiss and get to the top level of the REPL. I don't
> get these with Quack or Gambit mode.
>
> How do you make this work with Emacs? Commercial IDEs ruined this for
> me.

I like `M-x run-scheme' a bit.  Setting `scheme-program-name' to "guile"
allows me to run guile(1) from within Emacs and keep a log of my scheme
sessions as I go.