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diff --git a/doc/repl.texi b/doc/repl.texi index ca61198..f8f3dc9 100644 --- a/doc/repl.texi +++ b/doc/repl.texi @@ -45,6 +45,20 @@ evaluation when they're complete, and will indent new lines properly until then. It will also keep track of your input, maintaining a history file that will be reloaded whenever you restart the @repl{}. +@cindex remote REPL +@cindex connect to server +If you use Guile, there's an alternative way of starting a Geiser REPL: +you can connect to a remote Guile process, provided the latter is +running a REPL server. For that to happen, you just need to start your +Guile process (outside Emacs) passing to it the flag @code{--listen}. +Then, come back to Emacs and execute @kbd{M-x connect-to-guile}. You'll +be asked for a host and a port, with suitable default values (Guile's +@code{--listen} flag accepts an optional port as argument (as in +@code{--listen=1969}), if you don't want to use the default). And voila, +you'll have a Geiser REPL that is served by the remote Guile process in +a dedicated thread, meaning that your Guile can go on doing whatever it +was doing while you tinker with it from Emacs. + Nothing that fanciful this far, but there's more to Geiser's @repl{}. On to the next section! |