[plt-scheme] running an MzScheme debugger in Emacs?

From: Robby Findler (robby at cs.uchicago.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 24 13:50:08 EDT 2008

There are a few of those things in DrScheme. As below.

Robby

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Ben Simon <benjisimon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Chongkai Zhu <czhu at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>
> > Why don't you use DrScheme?
>
>
> I do use DrScheme, but there a whole bunch of features that I use in emacs
> every day that I miss dearly, including:
>
> (in no particular order)
>
> - dyanmic abbreviation completion (M-/)

This one is there, at least.

> - spell checking
> - dired
> - the ability to split, join, and resize windows and look at two parts of
> the same file at the same time - all by keystroke

This one too, at least I think it is all available by keystoke, but
I'm not sure of all of the stuff emacs has.

> - quick shell access
> - the ablity to yank previously cut text

also there.

> - quick buffer switching by keystroke
> - subversion integration
> - auto inserts
> (I'm sure there are more, and most of them are invisible to me because I use
> them so frequently)
>
> Some of these might not seem like a big deal - but once you get used to
> being able to hit M-$ to see if you spelled a variable right, you really
> miss it when it's gone.  In fact, I could probably give an impassioned plea
> to add any of the above features to DrScheme...
>
> Don't get me wrong - the debugging support in DrScheme is nothing short of
> amazing.  It's the best I've seen in any programming language or editor.
> And like I said, I use it and enjoy it.
>
> It's just that from an editing perspective, emacs nails quite a few things.
>
> -Ben
>
>
>
> >
> >
> > Chongkai
> >
> > Benjamin L. Russell wrote:
> >
> > > Is there a way to run an MzScheme debugger in Emacs, similarly to the
> MIT Scheme debugger in Edwin?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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