Emacs

Emacs is the editor that provides the best support for Guile.

Installation

You can install it the same way you installed Guile (below, the example with Guix) :

$ guix install emacs

Configuration

This book is not intended to teach how to use Emacs. So I propose you hereafter a ready-to-use configuration to make writing programs in Guile more pleasant with Emacs. Feel free to take only what you are interested in!

Visual support

Highlight cursor line

;; paste this lines into your emacs config file
(global-hl-line-mode +1)

Without

Without global-hl-line-mode

With

With global-hl-line-mode

Highlight the pair of delimiters under the cursor

;; paste this lines into your emacs config file
(show-paren-mode 1)
(setq show-paren-delay 0)

Without

Without show-paren-mode

With

With show-paren-mode

Operational support

" make Scheme hacking inside Emacs (even more) fun "

If you only had to install one extension, this is it.

Installation

$ guix install emacs-geiser emacs-geiser-guile

Activation

M-x run-guile

Usage

You can refer to https://www.nongnu.org/geiser/Cheat-sheet.html#Cheat-sheet

Add auto-completion to Geiser :

Installation

$ guix install emacs-ac-geiser

Activation

;; paste this lines into your emacs config file
(ac-config-default)
(require 'ac-geiser)
(add-hook 'geiser-mode-hook 'ac-geiser-setup)
(add-hook 'geiser-repl-mode-hook 'ac-geiser-setup)
(eval-after-load "auto-complete"
  (add-to-list 'ac-modes' geiser-repl-mode))

Without

Without ac-geiser

With

With ac-geiser

Edit the code based on the S-expression structure

Installation

$ guix install emacs-paredit

Activation

;; paste this lines into your emacs config file
(require 'paredit)
(autoload 'enable-paredit-mode "paredit" "Turn on pseudo-structural editing of Lisp code." t)
(add-hook 'scheme-mode-hook #'enable-paredit-mode)

Usage

I couldn't do better than this guide by Dan Midwood.

Refactoring support

Edit several strings of characters in the same way simultaneously

Installation

$ guix install emacs-iedit

Activation

;; paste this lines into your emacs config file
(require 'iedit)

Usage

C-; on a word to edit all its occurrences.
C-0 C-; on a word to edit all its occurrences in the active region.

Edit several places in the file in the same way simultaneously.

Installation

$ guix install emacs-multiple-cursors

Activation

;; paste this lines into your emacs config file
(require 'multiple-cursors)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-S-c C-S-c") 'mc/edit-lines)
(global-set-key (kbd "C->") 'mc/mark-next-like-this)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-<") 'mc/mark-previous-like-this)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c C-<") 'mc/mark-all-like-this)

Usage

C-> Add a cursor on the next line
C-< Add a cursor on the previous line

When editing is finished, C-g.

Extract variables and functions

Installation

;; paste this lines into your emacs config file
(if (not (package-installed-p 'emr))
    (progn
      (package-refresh-contents)
      (package-install 'emr))))

Activation

;; paste this lines into your emacs config file
(require 'emr)
(autoload 'emr-show-refactor-menu "emr")
(define-key prog-mode-map (kbd "M-RET") 'emr-show-refactor-menu)
(eval-after-load "emr" '(emr-initialize))
(global-set-key (kbd "M-v") 'emr-scm-extract-variable)
(global-set-key (kbd "M-f") 'emr-scm-extract-function)

Usage

M-v Extract a variable
M-f Extract a function