Re: [racket-users] Of editors and mere mortals

2016-11-10 Thread Ken MacKenzie
I have been a vim user for quite some time. After numerous attempts at setting vim up more IDE like I decided to give emacs a try as I was starting to dive deeper in the scheme/lisp/racket world. Emacs has proven to be a much more flexible setup. Granted I still think knowing vim or vi is

Re: [racket-users] Of editors and mere mortals

2016-11-10 Thread David Raymond Christiansen
On 11/05/2016 09:14 AM, Ken MacKenzie wrote: And particularly if you use emacs, what add ons or setup do you do for racket or scheme editing in general. I use mostly Emacs. Aside from what's already been recommended here, I really like DrRacket's handling of input of non-keyboard characters

Re: [racket-users] Of editors and mere mortals

2016-11-09 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 09:23:01PM -0500, David Storrs wrote: > I've been using Emacs as my sole text editor since about 1990. Things I > use on a daily basis include: > > - Dired mode > - Org mode > - iswitchb (which I think has been obsoleted by something else, but still > works fine) > -

Re: [racket-users] Of editors and mere mortals

2016-11-07 Thread Asumu Takikawa
On 2016-11-05 06:14:34 -0700, Ken MacKenzie wrote: > And particularly if you use emacs, what add ons or setup do you do for racket > or scheme editing in general. Since you're also a vim user, you may like evil-mode in emacs. It's a very good vim emulation mode. I find that emacs+evil is a better

Re: [racket-users] Of editors and mere mortals

2016-11-06 Thread David Storrs
I've been using Emacs as my sole text editor since about 1990. Things I use on a daily basis include: - Dired mode - Org mode - iswitchb (which I think has been obsoleted by something else, but still works fine) - desktop-save-mode On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Ken MacKenzie

Re: [racket-users] Of editors and mere mortals

2016-11-06 Thread Meino . Cramer
For me it is vim with tslime. Tim Jervis [16-11-07 02:48]: > Emacs (Aquamacs) (with racket-mode and Paredit) for me, with occasional > DrRacket use for rare debugging, especially Macros. > > Tim > > > On 5 Nov 2016, at 13:14, Ken MacKenzie wrote: >

Re: [racket-users] Of editors and mere mortals

2016-11-06 Thread Tim Jervis
Emacs (Aquamacs) (with racket-mode and Paredit) for me, with occasional DrRacket use for rare debugging, especially Macros. Tim > On 5 Nov 2016, at 13:14, Ken MacKenzie wrote: > > So as much as I know there is much love for Dr Racket, I am not the biggest > fan. Yes I

Re: [racket-users] Of editors and mere mortals

2016-11-05 Thread Vincent St-Amour
There's a section of the guide that discusses tools to use Racket with various text editors, including Emacs: http://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/other-editors.html Vincent On Sat, 05 Nov 2016 08:14:34 -0500, Ken MacKenzie wrote: > > So as much as I know there is much love for Dr Racket, I

Re: [racket-users] Of editors and mere mortals

2016-11-05 Thread Ken M
Yes racket mode is installed. A few other odds and ends as well. A few other people direct responded some other suggestions. I would suggest they add them to the whole group as they might prove useful for others. Ken On Sat, Nov 05, 2016 at 01:58:48PM -0400, Ben Greenman wrote: > Do you have

Re: [racket-users] Of editors and mere mortals

2016-11-05 Thread Ben Greenman
Do you have racket-mode installed? https://github.com/greghendershott/racket-mode -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

[racket-users] Of editors and mere mortals

2016-11-05 Thread Ken MacKenzie
So as much as I know there is much love for Dr Racket, I am not the biggest fan. Yes I must admit some of its helper features are great for working in racket and if I must debug something it is probably the best place to work. Anyway was wondering what other editors people use. I have been a