I've released an Emacs package that encompasses the customizations I've made to the base scheme-mode. This is a heavy iteration on the work previously present on the wiki.
It provides: - Syntax support for all presently installed modules, both bound symbols and macros. - Chicken-doc support where documentation exists (including a C-? binding to lookup the word-at-point). - Support for font-locking of the above. - Automatic loading of a defvar'd etag file, if you wish. - Auto-Complete and Font Locking of *prefixed* *symbols*; IE, if you imported Allegro with the prefix al: *then al:draw-triangle will have the draw-triangle portion correctly coloured and auto-completed*! Most importantly, and the itch that drove this endeavour, *this is all provided independent of a running REPL*. For those of us who tend to work on more unstable/low-level code that is prone to killing the REPL the higher-level functionality of the various scheme modes are frustratingly inconsistent at best. Now without the need for an active REPL we can enjoy full syntax highlighting, auto-completion and documentation. Now, there is one outstanding annoyance that I'd like to field the mailing list for suggestions on. At present, all symbols found via * ##sys#macro-environment* and *##sys#environment-symbols# *are given the font-lock-builtin-face. I'd like to know what's best not to include at all, and hear some suggestions on how best to divide up the rest. Right now it feels like that font-locking is a little *too* aggressive. And perhaps the one negative: in order to provide these features without the REPL a cache is built when scheme-mode is first loaded. I *highly* recommend you run Emacs from a daemon if you use this extension, so as to avoid unnecessarily recaching. That, or you can customize the *chicken-ac-modules* variable to just load the 'chicken' module and there will be nary a hitch, though far less completions. Anyhow, further details are available on the wiki: https://wiki.call-cc.org/dans-custom-emacs Thanks, -Dan
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