<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Chongkai Zhu <<a href="mailto:czhu@cs.utah.edu">czhu@cs.utah.edu</a>> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Why don't you use DrScheme?</blockquote> <div> </div> <div>I do use DrScheme, but there a whole bunch of features that I use in emacs every day that I miss dearly, including:</div> <div> </div> <div>(in no particular order)</div> <div> </div> <div>- dyanmic abbreviation completion (M-/)</div> <div>- spell checking</div> <div>- dired</div> <div>- the ability to split, join, and resize windows and look at two parts of the same file at the same time - all by keystroke</div> <div>- quick shell access</div> <div>- the ablity to yank previously cut text</div> <div>- quick buffer switching by keystroke</div> <div>- subversion integration</div> <div>- auto inserts</div> <div>(I'm sure there are more, and most of them are invisible to me because I use them so frequently)</div> <div> </div> <div>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...</div> <div> </div> <div>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.</div> <div> </div> <div>It's just that from an editing perspective, emacs nails quite a few things.</div> <div> </div> <div>-Ben</div> <div> </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><span id=""></span><br><br>Chongkai<br><br>Benjamin L. Russell wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Is there a way to run an MzScheme debugger in Emacs, similarly to the MIT Scheme debugger in Edwin?<br><br>  <br></blockquote><br>_________________________________________________<br> For list-related administrative tasks:<br> <a href="http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme" target="_blank">http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme</a><br> </blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Have an idea for software? I can make it happen - <a href="http://www.ideas2executables.com">http://www.ideas2executables.com</a><br>My Blog: <a href="http://benjisimon.blogspot.com">http://benjisimon.blogspot.com</a>