Quack: Enhanced Emacs Support for Editing and Running Scheme Code
Quack enhances Emacs support for Scheme. It is layered atop the
standard packages cmuscheme.el, by Olin Shivers, and
scheme.el, by Bill Rozas and Dave Love. Added features include:
Menu and commands for viewing popular Scheme-related manuals or books. Uses local copies of PLT manuals when available, and remote Web copies when necessary. Command for keyword lookup in PLT manual, with keyword defaulting to symbol at point.
Menus and command for viewing SRFIs. SRFI index information is automatically downloaded from SRFI Web site. Prompt defaults to SRFI number referenced at point.
A
find-filealternative that defaults to the file corresponding to the PLTrequireform at point. (Other module systems will be supported in future versions of Quack.)Two new sets of font-lock rules for Scheme: "PLT Style," which is similar to that used by DrScheme 200 Check Syntax; and "Extended GNU Emacs Style," which is an extended version of the standard Scheme font-lock rules under GNU Emacs.
Pretty-lambda fontification. (GNU Emacs 21 only.)
Enhanced
run-schemebehavior.Enhanced
switch-to-schemebehavior.Scheme Mode indentation rules for extensions of PLT, Guile, and other dialects.
Command to toggle a
defineform between(define (<name> <args>) <body>)and(define <name> (lambda (<args>) <body>))syntax.Command for tidying the formatting in a Scheme Mode buffer.
The
)and]keys insert the character that agrees with the s-expression's opening character.Mode for inspecting contents of PLT
.pltpackage files.Automatic indenting options for Return key.
Command to open a Dired on a specified PLT collection.
compilemode can navigate from PLTsetup-plterrors.
To be added to the moderated scheme-announce email
list, ask neil@neilvandyke.org .
You can download file quack.el, version 0.33 (2008-07-31).
Quack is now included in GNU/Linux distributions Debian (package
quack-el) and Gentoo (port app-emacs/quack).
Emacs Scheme @ CSE HUJI HOWTO introduction from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem