[racket] running racket from the command line

Thanks - good tip.  I don't suppose there some awesome one liner that
does this for all working directory paths?

On 22/10/2013, at 5:21 AM, Greg Hendershott <greghendershott at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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