Hi Ricardo, Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> writes:
> some months ago I thought it would be neat if we had a simpler > environment for newcomers to play with Guile than to ask them to first > learn how to use Emacs. > > This is what made me play around with Emacs to build something called > “Guile Studio”. It aims to hide the weirdest parts of Emacs and > configure it out of the box for hacking on Guile with Geiser and the > picture language. This sounds like a very useful thing to have, in an area where we are currently (or were previously :) lacking. Thank you for working on it! I'm overloaded with other urgent tasks at the moment, but I will certainly take a look at this at my earliest opportunity. This is of particular interest to me because I have a dearly beloved "honorary" nephew who will soon be of age to start learning how to program, and I can see that more work needs to be done before Guile could be a credible option for that purpose. This work is a most welcome contribution toward improving the situation. We also need to greatly improve our error messages, but that's another story :) > Guile Studio is not supposed to be yet another pre-configured Emacs; its > goal is just to provide a comfortable environment that works best for > playing with Guile. I’d like to have less surprising window management, > but I don’t know of any clear, simple and obvious solution. I just > don’t want windows to pop up and seemingly replace others, and I want > the management of how windows are arranged to be done manually and via > simple buttons. Any ideas about how to achieve this? I wonder if the Emacs community would be a good place to ask. What do you think? Thank you! Mark