---- On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 04:12:31 -0500 Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> wrote ---- > > Hi! > > > • What are Guile Studio's goals? > > 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. > > Everything that serves to avoid confusion is welcome in Guile Studio. > > > • What is its relationship with the GNU Guile project? > > There is none. I’m just a Guile enthusiast who thought that Guile > Studio would be a good thing to build. > > > • The homepage field in the Guix package points to GNU Guile's > > website. Should I send future questions and issues to Guile's lists > > and issue tracker? > > I don’t know. Whether to use the Guile bug tracker is up for the Guile > maintainers to decide. I think it’s fine to use the guile-user list, > though. I’m subscribed to guile-user. > > > • Current Guile Studio version is 0.0.2. Any plans for a future version? > > Once Emacs 27 is released I’ll probably have to adjust a few things. > Perhaps I’ll also configure the use of tabs then. > > There are many more things that could be done to improve the experience > (buffer handling is still a big pain point; documentation needs to be > better integrated, etc), but I don’t think I can spend as much time on > this as I used to. I’ll gladly discuss and merge patches, though. > > Thank you for your interest in Guile Studio!
No, thank you for the detailed information.
