[Chicken-users] Scheme development workflow

[Hans Nowak]

Greetings,

I have been wondering for a while what the "optimal" workflow is when 
working with Chicken (or most other Schemes, for that matter). I suspect 
that the way I develop Chicken code is too much like how I use Python, 
and that there should be better ways to do it.

Right now, when I write a program in Chicken, it looks something like 
this. I have Emacs open with a number of Scheme files loaded. I have a 
terminal window open with a csi session, and a browser window with tabs 
for Chickadee, the Chicken manual and maybe other Scheme resources. To 
try/test code, I use csi -s or -ss at the shell prompt, and unit tests.

From what I understand, this is not very "lispy" at all (having seen 
videos of people using Common Lisp with SLIME, etc). How do people here 
develop in Scheme?

(I tried http://community.schemewiki.org/?emacs-tutorial but it doesn't 
tell me much that I didn't already know, and the C-x h C-c C-r trick to 
send stuff to the Scheme REPL doesn't work properly for some reason.)

Any advice welcome...

Thanks,

--Hans Nowak