mit-scheme(1)

📦 version 12.1, in nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

💖 mit-scheme — the manual, but make it make sense 💖

ok so bestie, you've stumbled onto mit-scheme(1), which is the manual page from the MIT/GNU Scheme docs. welcome, you're gonna love it here ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

mit-scheme — the MIT/GNU Scheme development environment, aka your new personality trait 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

mit-scheme [OPTIONS]

that's it. that's the whole vibe check. you run it, you give it options (or don't, she's flexible 💖)

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so MIT/GNU Scheme is an implementation of the Scheme programming language, and she is not doing the bare minimum, no cap. she ships with:

  • an interpreter
  • a compiler
  • a source-code debugger
  • an integrated Emacs-like editor
  • and a large runtime library

MIT/GNU Scheme is best suited to programming large applications with a rapid development cycle — which is a fancy way of saying she's built different for big projects where you're iterating fast 🔥 literally main character energy.

✨ OPTIONS ✨

these are just some of the more common command-line options, bestie — not the whole menu. for full info about available options, see the Texinfo documentation. additional options may also be supported by the band. and yes, you can use the --help option (last) to see descriptions of all available command-line options. iykyk 👑

  • --version — report various version numbers, then dip. exit. bye. 🫶
  • --heap NBLOCKS — set the size of the heap, measured in 1024-word blocks
  • --stack NBLOCKS — set the size of the stack, also measured in 1024-word blocks
  • --library PATH — tell Scheme where to look for its binary files. PATH should be a colon-separated list of directory names 🗂️
  • --option-summary — print the actual values of the machine parameters (like the ones above). receipts, basically 💀
  • --no-init-file — don't load the user's init file. skip the backstory, go straight to the plot 🙈
  • --edit — start the text editor after starting Scheme
  • --eval EXPRESSION... — evaluate the specified expressions after starting Scheme
  • --load FILENAME... — load the specified files after starting Scheme
heads up: --heap, --stack and friends take NBLOCKS in 1024-word blocks. don't come for me if you forget the units, i'm just the messenger 💖

🧚 FILES 🧚

  • .scheme.init or SCHEME.INI — Scheme loads this file first, if it exists in the user's home directory 🏠✨

🌈 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 🌈

MIT/GNU Scheme refers to a large number of environment variables. like, a lot a lot. see the Texinfo documentation for details — she contains multitudes 💜

💅 EXAMPLES 💅

wanna use the evaluator in a command-line interface? type:

mit-scheme

wanna start the editor and use it as a front-end to the evaluator? type:

mit-scheme --edit

slay. two lines, both iconic, no notes 🎀

👑 AUTHORS 👑

the MIT/GNU Scheme Team <bug-mit-scheme@gnu.org> — absolute legends, we stan 🫶

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

the full documentation for MIT/GNU Scheme is maintained as a set of Texinfo manuals. if the info program is properly installed at your site, the command

info "MIT/GNU Scheme User"

should give you access to the complete user's manual 📖

programming information is located in the Info topics "MIT/GNU Scheme Ref" and "SOS" — very demure, very mindful, three whole topics 💖

fr fr bestie: if info isn't installed properly at your site, that command isn't gonna do the thing. that's just how it is, i don't make the rules 🌸

and that's the whole page, bestie — brought to you by the MIT/GNU Scheme Team, version 12.1, manual page mit-scheme(1) 🦋💖 go forth and --eval something iconic ✨

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