GNU Emacs Interface (MIT/GNU Scheme 12.1)

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## 7 GNU Emacs Interface

GNU Emacs is distributed with a loadable package `xscheme`, which facilitates running Scheme as a subprocess of Emacs.

To invoke Scheme from Emacs, load the `xscheme` package (for example by ‘`(require 'xscheme)`’, then use `M-x run-scheme`. You may give `run-scheme` a prefix argument, in which case it will allow you to edit the command line that is used to invoke Scheme. Do not remove the `--emacs` option!

Note carefully: In Emacs 19 and later, the `run-scheme` command exists, but is different from the one described here! In order to get this interface, you must load the `xscheme` library before executing `run-scheme`.

Scheme will be started up as a subprocess in a buffer called ‘`*scheme*`’. This buffer will be in `scheme-interaction-mode` and all output from the Scheme process will go there. The mode line for the ‘`*scheme*`’ buffer will have this form:

    --**-*scheme*: 1 [Evaluator]           (Scheme Interaction: input)------

The first field, showing ‘`1`’ in this example, is the level number.

The second field, showing ‘`[Evaluator]`’ in this example, describes the type of REPL that is running. Other values include:

    [Debugger]
    [Where]

The mode after ‘`Scheme Interaction`’ is one of:

‘`input`’

  Scheme is waiting for input.

‘`run`’

  Scheme is running an evaluation.

‘`gc`’

  Scheme is garbage collecting.

When the `xscheme` package is loaded into Emacs, `scheme-mode` is extended to include commands for evaluating expressions (do `C-h m` in any `scheme-mode` buffer for the most up-to-date information):

`M-o` ¶

  Evaluates the current buffer (`xscheme-send-buffer`).

`M-z` ¶

  Evaluates the current definition (`xscheme-send-definition`). This is also bound to `C-M-x`.

`C-M-z` ¶

  Evaluates the current region (`xscheme-send-region`).

`C-x C-e` ¶

  Evaluates the expression to the left of point (`xscheme-send-previous-expression`). This is also bound to `M-RET`.

`C-c C-s` ¶

  Selects the ‘`*scheme*`’ buffer and places you at its end (`xscheme-select-process-buffer`).

`C-c C-y` ¶

  Yanks the most recently evaluated expression, placing it at point (`xscheme-yank-previous-send`). This works only in the ‘`*scheme*`’ buffer.

The following commands provide interrupt capability:

`C-c C-c` ¶

  Like typing `C-g` when running Scheme in a terminal. (`xscheme-send-control-g-interrupt`)

`C-c C-x` ¶

  Like typing `C-c C-x` when running Scheme in a terminal. (`xscheme-send-control-x-interrupt`)

`C-c C-u` ¶

  Like typing `C-c C-u` when running Scheme in a terminal. (`xscheme-send-control-u-interrupt`)

`C-c C-b` ¶

  Like typing `C-c C-b` when running Scheme in a terminal. (`xscheme-send-breakpoint-interrupt`)

`C-c C-p` ¶

  Like evaluating ‘`(continue)`’. (`xscheme-send-proceed`)

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