I use the same setup as you - have you made any significant changes to your emacs config files? Maybe we can share.
The Anarki emacs config could be improved. For example the indentation for the with macro drives me crazy, but I don't know how to fix it. Also, it breaks viewing of some Unicode chars (which is a problem for me as I write a lot of Chinese) - I've got a crappy workaround for that. And some other issues.
Just vim in one window, arc+rlwrap in another, browser+firebug in a third. With so little code there has been less reason to scale up the development environment.
I like not having to press shift to type parens[1], so I switched () with [] in lisp mode.
I like not having to press shift to type parens[1], so I switched () with [] in lisp mode.
Clever solution. The only problem in Arc would be the prevalence of [] for anonymous one-variable functions. Maybe switch ( and ) with 9 and 0, respectively, so that you shift to get the numbers instead of the parens?
So far they haven't been that prevalent. I don't want to overoptimize this too much. It takes time to rewire one's muscle memory, and needing shift for some digits but not others smacks of over-cleverness. There isn't that much difference between the frequency of square brackets and digits. Parens on the other hand are easily an order of magnitude more common.
Yes, you're right. I had misread what you wrote earlier and thought that you simply overloaded the [] keys with (). That you actually swapped them is a fine solution indeed.
Thanks for the sexp-nav tip. Have you used paredit? It has something similar for traversing sexps, but I guess it's simpler because there's only forward and backward. (Makes up for this with all its other tools for manipulating sexps though.)
DrScheme to edit Arc files, rlwrap + mzscheme REPL. Note that in DrScheme you can do a certain amount of customization of indentation patterns: Preferences -> Editing -> Indenting.
Partially because it was what I used when I was first introduced to Scheme. It has the basic Lisp-editing features (paren-matching, indentation); it colors text (e.g. comments are orange, literals are green, normal code is blue); it has a nice GUI for customizing much of the above (for indenting, you can give it specific words or regular expressions to determine whether to indent something 'define-style, 'lambda-style, or 'begin-style; you can also pick your own colors instead of the above, though I don't do that). I also like that cmd-I reindents everything.
Drawbacks: Indentation can't be customized as much as I'd like[1], at least as far as I know. Tendency to freeze up for several seconds (maybe because I tend to leave several files open for days at a time, but I'm not changing that).
I've experimented with Emacs too, and they are pretty comparable. I use DrScheme these days mainly out of habit, but one obstacle in Emacs is that I don't know how to make it do Arc-specific indentation, whereas I can do that pretty well in DrScheme.
[1] For example:
(with (this (blah)
that (thing)) ;this line is too far right
(do-stuff) ;this line isn't, because I told it
(do-more)) ; to indent "with" lambda-style
