On Jan 17, 2008 11:55 AM, Mark Schoonover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 17, 2008 11:50 AM, Brad Beyenhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 17, 2008 10:32 AM, Mark Schoonover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > I for one had to go through the Don't Panic Guide, skipping the parts > > that > > > talked about using the MIT lab. I'm not an Emacs user, so I needed an > > intro > > > to Edwin to get going. Now if I can only stop banging on the ESC key, I > > > would do much better! > > > > Ick... will we *have* to use edwin/emacs? I'd much rather use the > > interactive mit-scheme console, with vim for text editing when > > necessary. However, I'm unsure how to load externally-created text > > files or run their commands from within the console... > > We don't have to use anything, you are free to use what you'd like. Just > keep in mind you may get different answers than others due to differences in > Scheme versions. > > I'm thinking along the same lines as you are, use Vim like I'm used to, and > some other Lisp interpreter instead of Edwin. I've also played with lispbox, > but some of the examples is SICP won't work and I don't know enough about > Lisp yet to figure things out...
I'm using scheme by logging in to my virtual server elsewhere, so I'm trying to stay at the command-line (though I can X11-forward if necessary). Just running mit-scheme from the command-line is a great interactive interpreter, and it seems to be able to load source code with the --load switch, though all that seems to do is to import defined functions into the interactive environment. Anyway, even though the Don't Panic guide is Edwin-centric, what I've read of the textbook seems to be pretty implementation-agnostic. -- Brad Beyenhof http://augmentedfourth.com Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right. ~ Igor Stravinsky -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
