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author | Jose Antonio Ortega Ruiz <jao@gnu.org> | 2010-07-25 23:43:50 +0200 |
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committer | Jose Antonio Ortega Ruiz <jao@gnu.org> | 2010-07-25 23:43:50 +0200 |
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C-c z as a to and fro jump, plus documentation.
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diff --git a/doc/fun.texi b/doc/fun.texi index 44ca833..aae3c40 100644 --- a/doc/fun.texi +++ b/doc/fun.texi @@ -160,16 +160,33 @@ first served, this new rule will take precedence over the default ones. you can switch from Scheme source buffers to the REPL using @kbd{C-c z} or @kbd{C-c C-z} (as you might have noticed, in Geiser, whenever a key chord ends with a single letter, there's an equivalent one with that -letter modified by @key{Ctrl}). If you use a prefix, as in @kbd{C-u C-c -z}, besides being teleported to the REPL, the latter will switch to the -namespace of the Scheme source file (as if you had used @kbd{C-c m} in -the REPL, cf. @ref{Switching context}). +letter modified by @key{Ctrl}). Those shortcuts map to the interactive +command @code{switch-to-geiser}. + +If you use a numeric prefix, as in @kbd{C-u C-c z}, besides being +teleported to the REPL, the latter will switch to the namespace of the +Scheme source file (as if you had used @kbd{C-c m} in the REPL, with the +source file's module as argument; cf. @ref{Switching context}). + +Once you're in the REPL, the same @kbd{C-c z} shortcut will bring you +back to the buffer you jumped from, provided you don't kill the Scheme +process in between. This is why the command is called +@i{switch-to-geiser} instead of @i{switch-to-repl}, and what makes it +really handy, if you ask me. If for some reason you're not happy with the Scheme implementation that Geiser has assigned to your file, you can change it with @kbd{C-c s}, and probably take a look at @ref{switching-repl-buff,,the previous subsection} to make sure that Geiser doesn't get confused again. +@subsubheading A note about context +As explained before (@pxref{Modus operandi}), all Geiser activities take +place in the context of the @i{current namespace}, which, for Scheme +buffers, corresponds to the module that the Scheme implementation +associates to the source file at hand (for instance, in Racket, there's +a one to one correspondence between paths and modules, while Guile +relies on @code{define-module}). + @node Autodoc redux, Evaluating Scheme code, The source and the REPL, Fun between the parens @section Autodoc redux diff --git a/doc/repl.texi b/doc/repl.texi index aa15367..272a052 100644 --- a/doc/repl.texi +++ b/doc/repl.texi @@ -79,7 +79,9 @@ the input received from then underlying Scheme (specially if you have multiple threads writing to the standard ports), and become irresponsive; you can try this command to try to revive it without killing the process. Finally, if worse comes to worst and the process is -dead, @kbd{C-c z} will restart it. +dead, @kbd{C-c z} will restart it (but the same shortcut, issued when +the REPL is alive, will bring you back to the buffer you came from, as +explained @ref{switching-repl-buff,,here}). The remaining commands are meatier, and deserve sections of their own. |