Re: Matching parentheses in Guile

[Greg Harvey <Greg.Harvey@thezone.net>]

Russ McManus <russell.mcmanus@gs.com> writes:

> Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com> writes:
> 
> > Greg Harvey has written a patch to get Guile to do parenthesis
> > matching using a stock readline library.  I can't commit this change
> > until the FSF gets a copyright assignment from Greg, but in the
> > mean time, I thought people might appreciate it.  (I certainly do. :) )
> 
> I never use guile interactively except from within emacs.  I can't get
> useful work done without it (dabbrev _rulez_), so if emacs isn't
> running, I just start it.
> 
> The utility of readline in guile is lost on me; I think it just bloats
> the guile core. (ducks from hail of rotten vegetables)

Well, it's useful if you can't (or don't want to) run emacs. I usually
use ilisp for guile & cmulisp, but ilisp takes over a bunch of comint
variables (eventually I'll wade through that particular tangled web),
which buggers up other parts of emacs, so it's only useful when I am
going to be doing a lot of scheme code. When I only want to test out a
particular bug, or look at how the gc is working, readline really
comes in handy.

Even so, you should still be able to disable it when you configure
guile (that doesn't appear to be the case right now). 

-- 
Greg