I’ve made some improvements to the Chicken Scheme SWANK server I posted previously. Thank you to all the people who emailed me about it! I’ve fixed several minor bugs and implemented some new features:

The SLIME autodoc minor mode now works giving more detailed parameter hints. For example:

Autodoc is not enabled by default so you’ll need to add

( slime - setup ' ( slime - autodoc ) )

to your .emacs . It’s not perfect as it gets confused by symbols exported from Chicken modules (e.g. it does not work when the function has a module# prefix). Any suggestions on how to work around this would be appreciated :).

Several more SLIME commands are now implemented – e.g. C-x C-e and C-x C-r work as expected. Let me know if there’s a command you frequently use that doesn’t work. I’d love to have M-. supported but I can’t see a way to extract the required location information from Chicken.

Simple tab-completion of symbols now works too:

The problems with interrupts from Emacs I mentioned last time have now been fixed and you can easily break out of infinite loops using C-c C-c like this:

Follow the instructions in the last post to get started. If you’ve tried it already a git pull should be all you need. Note that the dependencies have changed slightly:

$ chicken-install fmt apropos symbol-utils

will install the required libraries.

Let me know if you have any questions or comments!