[racket] running racket from the command line

Early on using Racket, like you I had some trouble or other quoting. I
adopted the perhaps dubious habit of, right after installing a new
version, renaming to e.g. /Applications/Racket_v5.3.6" -- i.e. " " ->
"_".

On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 4:50 AM, Matthew Johnson <mcooganj at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks very much. Working well now.
>
> For those that find this, a trap for young players is that you must
> quote paths with spaces in them, else you will lose everything you
> depend upon (even the command 'ls').
>
> So it is
>
> Export PATH="/Applications/Racket v5.3.6/bin":$PATH
>
> mj
>
> On 21/10/2013, at 7:30 PM, Norman Gray <norman at astro.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>>
>> Matt, hello.
>>
>> On 2013 Oct 21, at 08:59, Matthew Johnson <mcooganj at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I just downloaded the Racket binaries and installed them.
>>
>> Ah, but where have you installed them?
>>
>>> I have been able
>>> to fire up DrRacket, however given that i prefer vim i was hoping to run
>>> racket from the command line.
>>>
>>> I've tried
>>>
>>> $ racket  and $ which racket
>>
>> I take it, then, that you're on a unix.  On OS X for example, the relevant bin/ directory is located in the same directory as DrRacket.app, and so that's the directory (.../Racket\ v5.3.6/bin) that has to be (explicitly) added to your path.  I don't know the layout of the various Linux distributions, but I imagine there's a broadly similar layout there.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Norman
>>
>>
>> --
>> Norman Gray  :  http://nxg.me.uk
>> SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK
>>
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