Re: [Geiser-users] (no subject)

[Jose A. Ortega Ruiz]

Hi Dirk,

On Fri, Sep 27 2013, Dirk Theisen wrote:

> Dear geiser users and developers,
>
> I am curious to try out scheme, but not comfortable with emacs
> (yet?). I found geiser to provide very good functionality for
> debugging and incremental development. So: Is the network protocol
> used by geiser documented somewhere? If I wanted to write a new client
> (as alternative to the elisp client), where would I start?

Unfortunately, i haven't documented the protocol yet.  One can see how
messages are constructed in the file elisp/geiser-eval.el, under the
sections ";;; Code sending"  and ";;; Retort parsing", but if you're not
familiar with Elisp that can be hard to follow.

A second possibility is to type, in Emacs, C-u M-x geiser-show-logs
. That will open a log window where you'll see the messages that emacs
sends to the scheme process and the respective response.  The
communication is all text-based, and using Geiser and looking at what
appears there you can learn the protocol "by example".

Cheers,
jao
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