Thanks - good tip. I don't suppose there some awesome one liner that does this for all working directory paths?
On 22/10/2013, at 5:21 AM, Greg Hendershott <greghendersh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Early on using Racket, like you I had some trouble or other quoting. I > adopted the perhaps dubious habit of, right after installing a new > version, renaming to e.g. /Applications/Racket_v5.3.6" -- i.e. " " -> > "_". > > On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 4:50 AM, Matthew Johnson <mcoog...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Thanks very much. Working well now. >> >> For those that find this, a trap for young players is that you must >> quote paths with spaces in them, else you will lose everything you >> depend upon (even the command 'ls'). >> >> So it is >> >> Export PATH="/Applications/Racket v5.3.6/bin":$PATH >> >> mj >> >> On 21/10/2013, at 7:30 PM, Norman Gray <nor...@astro.gla.ac.uk> wrote: >> >>> >>> Matt, hello. >>> >>> On 2013 Oct 21, at 08:59, Matthew Johnson <mcoog...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I just downloaded the Racket binaries and installed them. >>> >>> Ah, but where have you installed them? >>> >>>> I have been able >>>> to fire up DrRacket, however given that i prefer vim i was hoping to run >>>> racket from the command line. >>>> >>>> I've tried >>>> >>>> $ racket and $ which racket >>> >>> I take it, then, that you're on a unix. On OS X for example, the relevant >>> bin/ directory is located in the same directory as DrRacket.app, and so >>> that's the directory (.../Racket\ v5.3.6/bin) that has to be (explicitly) >>> added to your path. I don't know the layout of the various Linux >>> distributions, but I imagine there's a broadly similar layout there. >>> >>> Best wishes, >>> >>> Norman >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk >>> SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK >> >> ____________________ >> Racket Users list: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/users ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
