[plt-scheme] Please share your comments on the pros and cons of mzscheme + EMACS

Oh, I was thinking about the run button -- but the only difference
between sending a single definition and sending the entire program
each time (after cleaning things out) is that the latter avoids
confusing bugs.

Relatedly, there is the esc-p keybinding that brings back previous
repl interactions. Maybe that's helpful?

Robby

On 6/7/07, Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org> wrote:
> How do you do that? Thus far I have been hitting the run button each
> time and of course that clears out the repl.
>
> On 6/7/07, Robby Findler <robby at cs.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> > On 6/7/07, Richard Cobbe <cobbe at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 07:53:08AM -0500, Grant Rettke wrote:
> > >
> > > >  It "sounds" like everyone uses EMACS. "They" keep talking about how
> > > >  great it is for LISP, and how much they love it.
> > >
> > > I think people say that emacs is a wonderful environment for editing LISP
> > > for primarily two reasons.  First, it has a deep understanding of the
> > > structure of LISP syntax.  This manifests itself largely as keybindings to
> > > manipulate S-expressions, as you mention above.  Ferinstance: control-T
> > > transposes two characters, meta-T transposes two words, control-meta-T
> > > transposes two S-expressions.  (To a first approxmation, 'meta' is
> > > Emacs-speak for 'alt'.)  There are also keybindings for moving forward and
> > > backward by s-expressions, and so forth.
> > >
> > > The other big advantage is the support for running a LISP/Scheme REPL
> > > directly inside emacs, along with keybindings to reload the current file or
> > > current definition.  The details differ depending on exactly which LISP or
> > > Scheme mode you use, so I won't go into details.  But it's generally
> > > possible, for example, to edit a function definition in mumble.lisp and hit
> > > a keybinding to load the new function definition into the REPL without
> > > having to cut-n-paste.
> >
> > Just for the record, these are things that drs does too, of course.
> >
> > Robby
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