Is there way to run MIT scheme interpreter under emacs on Windows?

Question

I am a newbie for Lisp, and trying to run MIT scheme interpreter under emacs on Windows. But info seems all indicate that this is impossible. http://www.cs.rpi.edu/academics/courses/fall05/ai/scheme/starting.html http://www.gnu.org/software/mit-scheme/

So I wonder if there is a way to do so. Thanks.

Answer 1

The following works for me. You'd obviously need to add your paths. If I omit the --library option, then upon startup mit-scheme complains about not finding it's runtime band.

(require 'cmuscheme)
(setq scheme-program-name "/usr/local/scheme/bin/mit-scheme --library /usr/local/scheme/lib/mit-scheme")

In the scheme buffer:

MIT/GNU Scheme running under MacOSX
Type `^C' (control-C) followed by `H' to obtain information about interrupts.

Copyright (C) 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
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Answer 2

I run on Linux emacs with xscheme: https://www.gnu.org/software/mit-scheme/documentation/mit-scheme-user/GNU-Emacs-Interface.html

It was rather easy to install. See this question about it's installation. He seemed to get it running OK: running scheme from emacs

Good luck.

Answer 3

I had tried what you want on WINDOWS 7, independent terminal could be popped up outside emacs but with error info in REPL. It seems that there was no official support for this feature on windows, Racket works fine with the geiser package, maybe you could try it.

https://www.gnu.org/software/mit-scheme/documentation/mit-scheme-user/GNU-Emacs-Interface.html#GNU-Emacs-Interface

This interface works under unix only, because it requires unix signals for its operation. Porting it to Windows would require reimplementing the interface to eliminate the use of signals. We have no plans to do this. To invoke Scheme from Emacs, load the xscheme library, then use Mx run-scheme. You may give run-scheme a prefx argument, in which case it will allow you to edit the command line that is used to invoke Scheme. Do not remove the --emacs option!

Answer 4

There are instructions for getting Chez Scheme working with Emacs on Windows . It might be possible to translate those instructions to MIT Scheme.

However, an alternative option is to use Racket with the SICP language mode . Once the package is installed, using Scheme is simple:

To use the sicp language simply use #lang sicp as the first line of your program.

This is what I'm currently using to edit SICP code on Windows.

Answer 5

You can use Emacs in Windows, together with Scheme in WSL2, and set scheme-program-name to wsl scheme :

(setq scheme-program-name "wsl scheme")

Then run run scheme will Enter into the Scheme.