Edwin Scheme is the Scheme programming language available from within the EdWin emacs editor.
Edwin Scheme is the Scheme programming language available from within the EdWin emacs editor.
Questions tagged [edwin]
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How does one get the prompt (>) in the Edwin editor for MIT/GNU Scheme?
Nomally, you will get a prompt like this:
=>
where you can type in expressions for evaluation:
=> (+ 3 4)
7
But with Edwin, there is only a blinking black rectangle and nothing happens when you type in expressions.
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How to run Edwin editor in console mode
I am an absolute Lisp / Scheme beginner, now trying to self-teach by reading Simply Scheme from page 1. I downloaded MIT/GNU Scheme with builtin Edwin editor. I would like to run Edwin in console mode under iTerm rather than in its default…
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How do I load files in Edwin
This might be a stupid question but I cannot figure this out for the life of me nor can I find a reference online which answers my question.
I have been using Edwin (this is my first time using Emacs) to follow along with the MIT Opencourseware…
user79216
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Using MIT/GNU Scheme
I have downloaded the MIT/GNU Scheme implementation of LISP in order to understand Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. However, I am a bit confused about what I am dealing with when I launch the program. When the program is launched,…
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How to use Git within MIT-Scheme's Edwin?
There's support for Git under Edwin, the emacs-clone that comes with MIT-Scheme: I find some code for it in the source-tree. However, I don't get it to work: I can't find the correct commands that do the job.
So the question is: how to use Git…
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how to programmatically call M-x functions in Edwin for MIT-Scheme?
I'm using the Edwin editor with MIT-scheme, and because the default font size is so small, I do M-x set-font and then choose
-adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--24-240-75-75-m-150-iso8859-1
to make the font bigger. This works fine, but when I try to put…
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Launching MIT Scheme
Can you help me to figure out how to use MIT Scheme? The Edwin editor. There is a huge field to type but it doesn't respond. It allows me to evaluate expressions in the bottom tiny field only when I type esc twice in a row.
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how to change the font size of edwin editor?
I am using edwin editor which comes with mit gnu scheme. When I open it on my Debian system with the following command "scheme -edwin -edit", I get the editor window, but it has extremely small font size.
Even after several searches I could not…
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Getting Edwin to open Scheme file correctly with C-x C-f
I am learning SICP. I'm using Edwin 3.116 that installed with MIT-Scheme on my Windows 7 (32-bit) / AMD (64-bit) machine.
For the life of me I have not been able to discover why Edwin is unable to open and read a file correctly:
When I open an…
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Unbound variable in edwin scheme
I'm learning Scheme for the first time, and for practice I'm trying to write a program that returns a list of a specified length with all values equal to 1. I'm using the MIT/GNU Edwin editor on Windows 10. Here's the code I typed:
(define…
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Cannot start MIT Scheme - Heap Size exceeded
For some reason I'm having trouble running MIT scheme. On my Dell, which runs Windows Vista, I can't even open MIT scheme; I get a message: "Heap Size exceeded", or something like that. I can run it fine on my Mac, but Edwin is a bit confusing. Does…
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In Edwin editor, how do you define something?
I'm trying to learn scheme with edwin editor on Win7.
I did (define x 3.14). I then typed in "X". Then I ran it using Ctrl X Ctrl E.
I get the message "unbound variable."
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