For what it is worth (and admittedly, it isn't worth much), edwin works fine on Ubuntu (Lucid).
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Štěpán Němec <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > before some time I reported the following Debian bug: > > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg798405.html> > > ...but got no reply. > > To quote from the report: > > No matter what I do: > - start MIT Scheme with the --edit option > - invoke (edit) / (edwin) / (create-editor) in the REPL > > Edwin doesn't start. > > `mit-scheme --edit' produces the exact same outcome as plane > `mit-scheme' (i.e. starts a REPL) > > Invoking any of the procedures gives this error: > 1 ]=> (create-editor) ; substitute (edit) or (edwin) here > > ;The primitive xterm-open-window signalled an anonymous error. > ;To continue, call RESTART with an option number: > ; (RESTART 1) => Return to read-eval-print level 1. > > 2 error> > > What gives? > > Tested in xterm, urxvt and tmux inside urxvt. > I use Xmonad as the window manager (and haven't had any problems popping > up windows with other apps, in case that's what starting Edwin is > supposed to do; I never used MIT Scheme before). > > > Now I even compiled MIT Scheme from the Git repository, no change. > I also tried it under the Awesome window manager or just with plain > xterm manually launched by xinit. Nothing. > > The only similar report I could find is this: > > <http://groups.google.co.jp/group/comp.lang.scheme/browse_thread/thread/43538b009a0b1fa1> > > > Could anyone please help? I'd really love to try out Edwin. > > Štěpán > > > _______________________________________________ > MIT-Scheme-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/mit-scheme-devel > -- ~jrm _______________________________________________ MIT-Scheme-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/mit-scheme-devel
