> From: Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> > Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:12:31 +0100 > Cc: guile-user@gnu.org > > The pretentiously named “Guile Studio” arose from the observation that > we often tell new Guile users to learn how to use Emacs first in order > to get a comfortable Guile development experience. Since Emacs has > really quirky defaults that don’t mesh with the expectations of people > who learn a new programming language, this can be so discouraging > that the person abandons the initial goal of learning Guile. > > Many people in the past had the idea to “fix” Emacs. “Guile Studio” is > not intended to be yet another Emacs starter kit like Prelude, Doom, or > Spacemacs. Instead it tries to focus on just Guile, going as far as to > remove “Emacs” from the window title and the menus. > > My goal was to provide a friendly editor that does not require any > configuration to use and play with Guile. You install Guile Studio and > get started right away. It tries to be what Dr Racket is for Racket and > what RStudio is for R. > > This is why Guile Studio comes with the picture language and immediately > spawns a Geiser session where it can be used. It hides Emacs clutter > from the menus and adds menu items that are relevant to new Guile users, > such as a link to the Guile manual. It aims to handle documentation > buffers specially to avoid the confusion that comes with Emacs-typical > “buffer clutter”. It uses CUA key bindings to avoid annoying surprises.
As an Emacs co-maintainer, I was quite surprised to read the above, since AFAIK none of these issues were ever communicated to the Emacs developers. If they were reported (using the Emacs built-in bug-reporting command), I'm quite sure we would be very attentive to such reports and amenable to adding/tweaking features so as to make Emacs a better basis for Guile use and development. After all, GNU projects should help each other. So I urge you to report the problems on which you hint above, and suggest changes or improvements that would remove at least some of the need to tweak Emacs for being a "Guile Studio". TIA
