Hi Paul, I'm sorry you haven't had the best experience with the scheme sandbox. Since development of LilyPond mostly takes place on Linux it's possible that Windows-related documentation can be neglected...
On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 10:51:58AM +0100, Paul McKay wrote: > I have Frescobaldi 3.1.2 as well (in case that’s relevant). Well... yes you can use Frescobaldi/LilyPond as a sort of Guile IDE if you want. If you put a \version statement at the top of the file and start each scheme expression with a '#' then it should work. > When the documentation refers to ‘opening a terminal window’ I assume this > means a command prompt of some kind. (If so, it would be good to use this > terminology. Not many of us remember the VT52 emulators.) On Linux and MacOS systems the relevant apps are all still named some variation of terminal (terminal, gnome-terminal, terminal.app, iterm, terminator - you get the picture). I'll see about adding a clarification for Windows users to refer them to cmd. > My copy of windows doesn’t have a *Start* menu: so that’s another > instruction that is meaningless. OK. Is there a common way to accomplish the old Start -> Run -> type in the name of a program? > At which point I’m presented with an unresponsive terminal. I exit via > Ctrl-C. If there is another Windows user on the list who has this working hopefully they can chime in and we can update the documentation as necessary. > I would be grateful for any help to get this going: or a redirection > to a better environment. Is there a Scheme IDE? I’ve never seen > anything like a comment in Scheme code. I wonder is it a write-only > language, the way APL was. I don't know about Scheme IDEs. An internet search suggests DrScheme might be suitable, but I think most people on this list use their LilyPond environment for working with scheme. What happens if you try running the guile program on its own (not via lilypond scheme-sandbox)? Kevin
