Evaluate mit-scheme code in a buffer in emacs? [duplicate]

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M-x eval-buffer evaluates lisp code in a buffer. How do I evaluate mit-scheme code written in a buffer?

Answer 1

In vanilla emacs you can do run-scheme, to start a scheme repl. Then you can use the different functions available for evaluating the scheme code in the repl.

For example given you are in scheme-mode, suppose you have following code in the scheme buffer

(define (test a b)
  (+ a b))

After starting the repl with run-scheme, you can go to the end of function definition and do C-x C-e, to evaluate it in the repl. Now you have the test function defined in the repl, to test this type the following in the buffer

(test 1 3)

Go to the end of the sexp and do C-x C-e again, this will print 4 in the repl. Also you can use C-c C-l to load the entire file at once.

Do C-h m to find out the different keybindings for evaluating scheme code. You can also use the menu to discover the different functions available.

Other option is to use slime as far as I know you will need some extra setup to use mit-scheme with slime, the instructions are present in the contrib/swank-mit-scheme.scm file in slime's main folder.