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diff --git a/doc/install.texi b/doc/install.texi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..78bc0df --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/install.texi @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +@node Installation, Quick start, Introduction, Top +@chapter Installation + +@menu +* Must needs:: +* Friends:: +* Getting it:: +@end menu + +@node Must needs, Friends, Installation, Installation +@section Must needs + +If Geiser came with any guarantees, you'd break all of them by not using +GNU Emacs 23 (or better) and at least one of the supported schemes, +which right now are @uref{http://www.racket-lang.org, Racket} 5.0 (or +better) and the latest and greatest +@uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/guile, Guile} 1.9 directly compiled +from a recent checkout of +@uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/repository.html, its git master +branch}. Since Geiser supports multiple REPLs, having both of them will +just add to the fun. + +@node Friends, Getting it, Must needs, Installation +@section Friends + +Although Geiser does not need them, it plays well with (and is enhanced +by) the following Emacs packages: + +@itemize +@item @uref{http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ParEdit, Paredit}. +Regardless of whether you use Geiser or not, you shouldn't be coding +in any Lisp dialect without the aid of Taylor Campbell's structured +editing mode. +@item @uref{http://nschum.de/src/emacs/company-mode/, Company}. +Nikolaj Schumacher's @t{company-mode} provides a nice front-end for +completion engines (such as Geiser's). Very nice if you like that kind +of thing: judge by yourself with the help of +@uref{http://www.screentoaster.com/watch/stU0lSRERIR1pYRFVdXVlRVFFV/company_mode_for_gnu_emacs, +this screencast}. +@end itemize + +@node Getting it, , Friends, Installation +@section Getting it + + + +@c Local Variables: +@c mode: texinfo +@c TeX-master: "geiser" +@c End: |