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From: eh@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Erik Hilsdale)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme.c
Subject: MIT scheme debugger
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assuming this is the right newsgroup for discussions of
MIT's implementation of scheme (and not scheme in
general, which i believe comp.lang.scheme covers), i've
a number of questions about the debugger.

first of all, since the debugger as a whole seems to be
a totally undocumented feature of the implementation
(alluded to in gnu-emacs documentation in a description
of scheme-mode of all things, but unmentioned in both
the MIT scheme user's manual and reference guide), are
there _any_ docs available, and if so, where?  

secondly, the undocumented debugger works fine when
scheme is called as a separate process, but only works
marginally well when called as a sub-process to emacs
(after sending "(debug)" to the process buffer a bunch
of non-formatted garbage appears on the screen, and
emacs needs the command "M-x scheme-debugger-self-input" 
to interface correctly).  are there emacs-lisp modules
that will make this work right?  

any answers are appreciated, and apologies if this is
the wrong forum for the question.

oh, and we're running MIT scheme 7.1.0 (beta).

-me (erik hilsdale)