Thanks!

I appreciate the testing. WorksForMe usually doesn't cut the mustard, so
your feedback is quite welcome.

I fixed a few of the derps that was causing Marmalade to have issues; happy
hacking!

-Dan


On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 2:26 AM, Kristian Lein-Mathisen <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
> 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 <[email protected]> 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
>>
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