Re: [Chicken-users] Emacs - chicken-doc and apropos

[Tim Johnson]

* Mario Domenech Goulart <address@hidden> [170122 02:14]:
> Hi Tim,
> 
> On Sat, 21 Jan 2017 15:22:03 -0900 Tim Johnson <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > * Tim Johnson <address@hidden> [170121 14:13]:
> >> This is just a FYI for the benefit of some fellow noob who might
> >> have questions about invoking the chicken REPL in emacs on ubuntu
> >> linux.
> >> 
> >> This presumes that geiser-mode is enabled for emacs
> >> 
> >> When choosing chicken from the geiser->run menu I got the following
> >> error message
> >> """
> >> No chicken-doc repository found at: "/usr/share/chicken/chicken-doc"
> >> """
> >> 
> >> To correct, I invoked the following :
> >> sudo chicken-install chicken-doc
> >> 
> >> The previously quoted error message was repeated.
> >> 
> >> Assuming that the chicken-doc repository was a separate installation
> >> from chicken-doc, a little research led me to invoke the following: 
> >> """
> >> curl http://3e8.org/pub/chicken-doc/chicken-doc-repo.tgz
> >> """
> >
> >   P.S. - 
> >   I should have included that the resulting untarred repository
> >   folder is /chicken-doc and needs to be either copied to
> >   /usr/share/chicked/ _or_ the environment configured as in
> >
> >   export CHICKEN_DOC_REPOSITORY=/path/to/repository
> 
> Thanks for sharing your tips.  To update the chicken-doc database, I
> use:
> 
>   cd `csi -p '(chicken-home)'` && \
>   curl http://3e8.org/pub/chicken-doc/chicken-doc-repo.tgz | \
>   tar zx
 
   I make me a little script ....

> Note that you must have the chicken-doc repository initialized by
> "chicken-doc-admin -i" (you only have to run that command once).
> 
  Thanks Mario. Done. And it looks like chicken-doc-admin installs
  the repository (if not found).
  cheers
-- 
Tim 
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