Re: [MIT-Scheme-devel] Edwin fails to start

[Joe Marshall]

For what it is worth (and admittedly, it isn't worth much),
edwin works fine on Ubuntu (Lucid).

On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Štěpán Němec <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> before some time I reported the following Debian bug:
>
> <http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg798405.html>
>
> ...but got no reply.
>
> To quote from the report:
>
>  No matter what I do:
>  - start MIT Scheme with the --edit option
>  - invoke (edit) / (edwin) / (create-editor) in the REPL
>
>  Edwin doesn't start.
>
>  `mit-scheme --edit' produces the exact same outcome as plane
>  `mit-scheme' (i.e. starts a REPL)
>
>  Invoking any of the procedures gives this error:
>  1 ]=> (create-editor)   ; substitute (edit) or (edwin) here
>
>  ;The primitive xterm-open-window signalled an anonymous error.
>  ;To continue, call RESTART with an option number:
>  ; (RESTART 1) => Return to read-eval-print level 1.
>
>  2 error>
>
>  What gives?
>
>  Tested in xterm, urxvt and tmux inside urxvt.
>  I use Xmonad as the window manager (and haven't had any problems popping
>  up windows with other apps, in case that's what starting Edwin is
>  supposed to do; I never used MIT Scheme before).
>
>
> Now I even compiled MIT Scheme from the Git repository, no change.
> I also tried it under the Awesome window manager or just with plain
> xterm manually launched by xinit. Nothing.
>
> The only similar report I could find is this:
>
> <http://groups.google.co.jp/group/comp.lang.scheme/browse_thread/thread/43538b009a0b1fa1>
>
>
> Could anyone please help? I'd really love to try out Edwin.
>
> Štěpán
>
>
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