Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: darren kirby <bulliver@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Scheme interpreter with readline support?
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 05:29:27
Message-Id: 200608182224.18166.bulliver@badcomputer.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] [OT] Scheme interpreter with readline support? by darren kirby
1 quoth the darren kirby:
2 > Hello all,
3 >
4 > I have been searching for a scheme interpreter that has readline support
5 > (at least I think it is readline support) whereby I could have a sort of
6 > expression history where I could use the up arrow or whatever for access to
7 > previous expressions and also use the left arrow to edit the current
8 > expression if I make a boo-boo. Sort of like the embedded python
9 > interpreter or Ruby's irb...
10 >
11 > I have tried mzscheme, chicken, and guile so far, and none seem to have
12 > this. I am also aware of environments such as drscheme, but I really just
13 > want a simple console interpreter.
14 >
15 > I thought I would ask here rather than installing and trying all ~25
16 > interpreters in dev-scheme
17 >
18 > Thanks,
19 > -d
20
21 Nevermind. I have found gambit and it is perfect...
22
23 -d
24 --
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26 "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..."
27 - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972