Re: [Geiser-users] Help associating source and REPL - "No prompt found!"

[Jon Miller]

address@hidden writes:
> What i'm trying to say is that geiser *requires* you to load it in the
> way i'm describing.  If you load it in any other way, it won't work,
> even if it superficially looks as if it's "loaded".
>
>> The regexp variable *was* set, but I found that I needed to alter it
>> to work with the prompt that racket was providing. Perhaps I'm running
>> a newer version of DrRacket than you've seen yet?
>
> When Geiser starts the Racket process, it makes some calls that modify
> the prompt of the interpreter to match the original regexp, using racket
> libraries present in Geiser's source tree.  The fact that the prompt you
> see is not as the regexp expects means that the Racket process is not
> being initialized properly.  One thing that the "load-file" command does
> is setting Racket's load path so that the geiser racket libraries are
> found and (among many other things) the interpreter prompt set
> appropiatedly.

Thank you! I've uninstalled the el-get version and have followed the proper
directions and it's working as advertised. Perhaps I'll try to figure out the
problem with the el-get recipe, but not tonight... I've got some scheme'ing
to do.

Thanks again,
-- 
Jon Miller