recently, I started programming Racket (formerly Scheme) in DrRacket. I quite fast I began to miss all the features of VIM in DrRacket, so I would like to use VIM for my scheme(racket) programming.
I know that Emacs might be the best choice for intense lisp programming, but all I want is write a scheme(racket) file check syntax and then run it.
Unfortunately, I could not figure out, how to invoke "racket" in the commandline on a file to get it doing the same as DrRacket.
I am running Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat, VIM 7.3 and I downloaded and installed Racket from the official website.
Help to get started would be very appreciated.
If you just want to load a file into Racket on the command-line and run it, I think that this should work:
$ racket -f file.scm -i
The -i
option would leave you at the REPL to test your code in file.scm
.
However, you might want to take a look at this blog post:
http://technotales.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/like-slime-for-vim/
You can set up a GNU screen session running the command-line Racket, and send s-expressions to it from Vim. There's a link to a bit of Vimscript which will make this automatic. I used this for a while with mit-scheme, and it was reasonably effective. It's not quite the as powerful as SLIME or DrRacket though. I just tested the steps described on OS X and it works with the command-line racket, it should work on Ubuntu, that's what I was using when I first used this method.
You might also want to take a look at this:
http://evalwhen.com/scmindent/index.html
... which has some information on better indentation in Vim for Lisp and Scheme code.
I eventually switched to Emacs, but don't let the Vim haters get you down. Paul Graham supposedly uses vi and he's gotta be one of the top 5 most prominent Lisp programmers.