BT Templeton <b...@hcoop.net> writes: > Hello all, > > I've pushed several significant changes to the public Guile-Emacs > repository at <http://git.hcoop.net/?p=bpt/emacs.git>: > > * Synchronized with bzr trunk as of mid-July. > > * Guile's control operators are used for all Elisp control-flow > functionality, including special binding, unwind-protect, errors, > catch/throw, and quit handling. > > * Guile exceptions are handled safely, and are re-thrown as Elisp > errors. > > * Emacs's I/O functions can now print arbitrary Guile objects. > > * Coccinelle, a semantic patching tool, can now parse 99% of Emacs's C > code base, compared to 75% previously. This requires using a patched > version of Coccinelle (<http://git.hcoop.net/?p=bpt/coccinelle.git>) > and using admin/coccinelle/macros.h as the "--macro-file" argument to > the spatch command. > > * Last but not least, there is now an `eval-scheme' command: > > (eval-scheme "(define (fact n) (if (= n 0) 1 (* n (fact (1- n)))))") > (eval-scheme "(fact 23)") => 25852016738884976640000 > > Guile-Emacs requires libgc 7.2d or better and the development version of > Guile. More information is available on the Emacs Wiki at > <http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileEmacs>.
I tried this today. I had prepared myself for a lot of work, but I was surprised to find that the build procedure was very simple! More or less, on Fedora 19: # this isnt like the instructions above, but the fedora repo guile is # seemingly pretty okay yum install guile* #the clone took about 10 minutes git clone git://git.hcoop.net/git/bpt/emacs.git #make takes a loong time, much more than a normal emacs ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make The build took 53 minutes including the time to clone the first time. The second time took only a couple of minutes. This was on a fairly beefy machine. m-x tetris, and m-x zone worked fine! (eval-scheme "(define (fact n) (if (= n 0) 1 (* n (fact (1- n)))))") (eval-scheme "(fact 23)") => 25852016738884976640000 also worked fine! I find this pretty awesome. I'm, hmm, awestruck! -- Joakim Verona
