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Sublimerepl on Windows doesn't support eval or transfer

#1
  • I have installed Gambit Scheme and SBCL on Windows.
  • I have installed Scheme language support for SublimeText 4 (great project–amazing capabilities).

I can start the REPL within Sublime Text for both languages. However,
neither Eval in REPL not Transfer to REPL work for either language.

I have done the same on MacOS and both languages work perfectly in SublimeRepl. To the naked eye, it seems I have configured Sublime Text and the 2 plugins identically.

  • Is this a problem on Windows with SublimeREPL? (not saying it is–just asking if this has been seen before…)

  • Is this a problem with these 2 languages, which are very Unix/Linux/Mac centric, in the way they implement their REPLs assuming a Bash or ZSH like environment that can be found on Linux, Unix, and MacOS?

I’d like to solve it if there is a known solution. It’s not the end of the world if not. Copy/Paste works, too.

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#2

see also:

A fix is pending since 2019 at https://github.com/wuub/SublimeREPL/pull/577

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#3

Unless HQ does the fix, it will never happen as the package is unmaintained. As I pointed out in an another topic, HQ should curate a handful to a dozen packages that provide critical functionality and are heavily used. SublimeRepl qualifies on both counts. Using Terminus with a big “paste” macro doesn’t seem like a reasonable substitute for a bunch reasons.

How could this curation idea be pushed? HQ will say that they can’t be responsible for all the packages. This proposal doesn’t say “all”: an arbitrary cap could be 15 packages and membership in the curated list could change from time to time: it should change.

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#4

Core community has collected various packages at https://github.com/SublimeText organisation, which enables easier user management in case of maintainers changing.

It requires capable and willing volonteers to do the maintanance work.

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#5

I am probably not qualified. There is a pending PR to fix the bug on Windows, but no one is there to review it and merge it if ok and then re-release the package. It really needs to be an HQ-employee job. Packages are typically open source, but Sublime Text is not. Not really fair to expect commercial software to be maintained by volunteers. I get the packages are NOT part of Sublime Text, but some of them should be part of a “standard library”: not installed by default, but available and intended to have the same quality as the core code.

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