Hi Tim, On Sat, 21 Jan 2017 15:22:03 -0900 Tim Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> * Tim Johnson <[email protected]> [170121 14:13]: >> This is just a FYI for the benefit of some fellow noob who might >> have questions about invoking the chicken REPL in emacs on ubuntu >> linux. >> >> This presumes that geiser-mode is enabled for emacs >> >> When choosing chicken from the geiser->run menu I got the following >> error message >> """ >> No chicken-doc repository found at: "/usr/share/chicken/chicken-doc" >> """ >> >> To correct, I invoked the following : >> sudo chicken-install chicken-doc >> >> The previously quoted error message was repeated. >> >> Assuming that the chicken-doc repository was a separate installation >> from chicken-doc, a little research led me to invoke the following: >> """ >> curl http://3e8.org/pub/chicken-doc/chicken-doc-repo.tgz >> """ > > P.S. - > I should have included that the resulting untarred repository > folder is /chicken-doc and needs to be either copied to > /usr/share/chicked/ _or_ the environment configured as in > > export CHICKEN_DOC_REPOSITORY=/path/to/repository Thanks for sharing your tips. To update the chicken-doc database, I use: cd `csi -p '(chicken-home)'` && \ curl http://3e8.org/pub/chicken-doc/chicken-doc-repo.tgz | \ tar zx Note that you must have the chicken-doc repository initialized by "chicken-doc-admin -i" (you only have to run that command once). >> Once that was done, the REPL still failed to load with an error >> message referring to the absence of the apropos module. >> >> This was solved by the following : >> """ >> sudo chicken-install apropos >> """ >> >> So, now I have the chicken REPL running asynchronously in emacs. All the best. Mario -- http://parenteses.org/mario _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
