geiser hanging on evaluation

[Anthony Villena]

I'm trying to connect Geiser to a chibi-scheme REPL, which appears to work until I try to do anything with the source file, such as evaluate a form, it hangs for several seconds or until I hit C-g. Interacting with the REPL window seems to work fine, though.

Geiser version is: 20200406.1104

chibi-scheme version is master as of (0a8393986)

My installation does work with other impelmentations such as Chez without having to do anything special.

I did see from the Geiser documentation that completion is known to cause hanging because it maybe have changed the "REPL prompt from what Geiser was expecting to see", but I don't know enough about Emacs, Geiser, or chibi-scheme right now to know exactly what it is suggesting, or if it is related to this issue:

https://www.nongnu.org/geiser/geiser_3.html#Completion-and-error-handling

[Alex Shinn]

I'm afraid I don't know anything about Geiser, can anyone help?

[I use scheme-complete.el, which was designed specifically with the goal of avoiding corruption or communication problems with long-running subprocesses.]

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[Vladimir Nikishkin]

Geiser's chibi support is not very good. I had sent a few pull requests, improved bits here and there, but the overall quality is still lower than, for example, in scheme-mode.

Patches welcome. The most common cause of hanging is sending incomplete code (i.g. missing parenthesis. Then chibi keeps waiting for more input, but geiser doesn't know what, and I didn't find how to detect this, as chibi just keeps waiting for more. 

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[Anthony Villena]

Thanks for the information all.

I'm probably too beginner at this to try to dissect Geiser, so I'll try Alex's mention of scheme-complete.el.

For anyone reading this in the future in the same situation, instead of Geiser for now I'm going to use the process described in:

http://community.schemewiki.org/?emacs-tutorial#H-rmyvnw

[Vladimir Nikishkin]

It's the "old" scheme-mode. It works quite well with MIT-Scheme, but I
don't think it is much used with other schemes, although I use it
occasionally. It's a bit more resilient than geiser.

My own 5 cents are the following: I found it to be super convenient to
use scheme with emacs org-mode's "shell" blocks with :shebang
"#!/usr/bin/chibi-scheme". You are not getting syntax highlighting
unfortunately, but there is a trick to go around it:

You make two org blocks, one a #+begin_src scheme :exports code , for
your scheme code, and the other one #+begin_src shell :shebang
"#!/usr/bin/chibi-scheme" :exports code output
An they you tangle the first one as the body of the second as a noweb
block: <<first-block>>

This way it becomes a bit more convenient. You can still use
scheme-complete _and_ geiser in the C-c ' buffers generated by
org-mode, and you can rerun your computation doing little tune-ups
right from the org buffer. And what's even better, it supports the
:stdin header argument as stdin redirection, which geiser doesn't
support at all, and scheme-mode supports in a weird way.

Hope this helps.

Lockywolf

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[Vladimir Nikishkin]

The manual on scheme-wiki is obsolete beyond being usable, I think :(

I tried to use it a year ago, or so, and I remember the author of
Quack, Neil van Dyke, releasing a new version of quack deliberately to
inform people such as me that "quack is no longer developed.". :)

[Anthony Villena]

I'm coming from DrRacket so I don't need too much right now, just jump-to-definition and "evaluation everything with one key". I realized that Emacs handles tags files out of the box, so that covered navigation.

For evaluation, I'd always heard that Emacs was easy to program, so I found with a combinations of the source of the old scheme mode I was able to add this to my .emacs config in under an hour with no experience. I'm impressed by its extensibility.

; Have Cmd+R eval the file like DrRacket

(global-set-key

  (kbd "s-r")

  (lambda ()

    (interactive)

    (scheme-send-region 1 (point-max))))

This should get me pretty far for now... once I get more familiar with how things work, I'll try the Geiser suggestion.