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Try the Geiser plugin for Emacs. It allows you to connect to the Racket REPL (either it starts a new instance of Racket, or it can connect to a socket/port).

Try the Geiser plugin for Emacs. It allows you to connect to the Racket REPL (either it starts a new instance of Racket, or it can connect to a socket/port). I'm a Vim user and went through elaborate pains to get Emacs working almost like Vim just so I could go through SICP this way.

vitalique 13y ago
Could you please outline your final setup besides using Geiser? I also come from Vim-land, have almost zero experience with Emacs and already understood that, to learn SICP, setting up and learning Emacs is going to be easier than setting up Vim for the task.
- laichzeit0 13y ago
  Well, I'd suggest if you know nothing about Emacs to install Emacs Prelude: https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude Next, enable the lisp/scheme modules in prelude-modules.el [1]. You need the Evil plugin to get Vim modal editing and probably Evil Leader (so you get Vim style <leader> commands). You can look at my config [2], there's nothing really funny except I map Ctrl-H to backspace and Ctrl-[ to ESC as that's what I also use in my Vim. There's also a slight modification to make Smartparens make parenthesis highlighting behave like in Vim. One other thing is if you're in insert mode then Emacs keystrokes should also work (Ctrl-Z to force switching between Vim/Emacs keystrokes). If you install the SICP plugin for Emacs (it's in my custom.el) and you type M-x info-display-manual sicp, or if you have Evil installed you can use use Vim's command :info-display-manual sicp, you'll get the SICP book as a manual inside Emacs. [1] https://github.com/humana/dotfiles/blob/master/emacs/prelude-modules.el https://github.com/humana/dotfiles/blob/master/emacs/prelude... [2] https://github.com/humana/dotfiles/blob/master/emacs/personal/custom.el https://github.com/humana/dotfiles/blob/master/emacs/persona...
  - vitalique 13y ago
    Wow, thank you very much for your suggestions and the .els! I guess now I'm really out of excuses not to start with SICP.

vitalique 13y ago

Could you please outline your final setup besides using Geiser? I also come from Vim-land, have almost zero experience with Emacs and already understood that, to learn SICP, setting up and learning Emacs is going to be easier than setting up Vim for the task.

laichzeit0 13y ago
Well, I'd suggest if you know nothing about Emacs to install Emacs Prelude: https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude Next, enable the lisp/scheme modules in prelude-modules.el [1]. You need the Evil plugin to get Vim modal editing and probably Evil Leader (so you get Vim style <leader> commands). You can look at my config [2], there's nothing really funny except I map Ctrl-H to backspace and Ctrl-[ to ESC as that's what I also use in my Vim. There's also a slight modification to make Smartparens make parenthesis highlighting behave like in Vim. One other thing is if you're in insert mode then Emacs keystrokes should also work (Ctrl-Z to force switching between Vim/Emacs keystrokes). If you install the SICP plugin for Emacs (it's in my custom.el) and you type M-x info-display-manual sicp, or if you have Evil installed you can use use Vim's command :info-display-manual sicp, you'll get the SICP book as a manual inside Emacs. [1] https://github.com/humana/dotfiles/blob/master/emacs/prelude-modules.el https://github.com/humana/dotfiles/blob/master/emacs/prelude... [2] https://github.com/humana/dotfiles/blob/master/emacs/personal/custom.el https://github.com/humana/dotfiles/blob/master/emacs/persona...
- vitalique 13y ago
  Wow, thank you very much for your suggestions and the .els! I guess now I'm really out of excuses not to start with SICP.