Hi Dan, This is great work!
I too work in constrained environments, mostly on mobile phones, so I'm really looking forward to use your package. I had some problems installing it through marmelade so I added a couple github issues. K. On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 3:40 AM, Daniel Leslie <d...@ironoxide.ca> wrote: > I've released an Emacs package that encompasses the customizations I've > made to the base scheme-mode. This is a heavy iteration on the work > previously present on the wiki. > > It provides: > - Syntax support for all presently installed modules, both bound symbols > and macros. > - Chicken-doc support where documentation exists (including a C-? binding > to lookup the word-at-point). > - Support for font-locking of the above. > - Automatic loading of a defvar'd etag file, if you wish. > - Auto-Complete and Font Locking of *prefixed* *symbols*; IE, if you > imported Allegro with the prefix al: *then al:draw-triangle will have the > draw-triangle portion correctly coloured and auto-completed*! > > Most importantly, and the itch that drove this endeavour, *this is all > provided independent of a running REPL*. > > For those of us who tend to work on more unstable/low-level code that is > prone to killing the REPL the higher-level functionality of the various > scheme modes are frustratingly inconsistent at best. Now without the need > for an active REPL we can enjoy full syntax highlighting, auto-completion > and documentation. > > Now, there is one outstanding annoyance that I'd like to field the mailing > list for suggestions on. At present, all symbols found via * > ##sys#macro-environment* and *##sys#environment-symbols# *are given the > font-lock-builtin-face. > > I'd like to know what's best not to include at all, and hear some > suggestions on how best to divide up the rest. Right now it feels like that > font-locking is a little *too* aggressive. > > And perhaps the one negative: in order to provide these features without > the REPL a cache is built when scheme-mode is first loaded. I *highly* > recommend > you run Emacs from a daemon if you use this extension, so as to avoid > unnecessarily recaching. > > That, or you can customize the *chicken-ac-modules* variable to just load > the 'chicken' module and there will be nary a hitch, though far less > completions. > > Anyhow, further details are available on the wiki: > https://wiki.call-cc.org/dans-custom-emacs > > Thanks, > -Dan > > _______________________________________________ > Chicken-users mailing list > Chicken-users@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users > >
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