NAME¶

csi — The CHICKEN Scheme interpreter

SYNOPSIS¶

DESCRIPTION¶

csi is an interpreter for the programming language Scheme supporting most of the features as described in the Revised^5 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme. csi is implemented as a program compiled with the CHICKEN compiler.

FILENAME is a Scheme source file name with optional extension. OPTION may be one of the following:

-h, -help

Display usage and exit.

-version

Display version and exit.

-release

Print release number and exit.

-i, -case-insensitive

Enable case-insensitive reading.

-e EXPRESSION, -eval EXPRESSION

Evaluate the given expression.

-p EXPRESSION, -print EXPRESSION

Evaluate and print the result(s) of the given expression.

-P EXPRESSION, -pretty-print EXPRESSION

Evaluate and print result(s) prettily.

-D SYMBOL, -feature SYMBOL

Register feature identifier.

-no-feature SYMBOL

Disable built-in feature identifier.

-q, -quiet

Do not print banner.

-n, -no-init

Do not load initialization file. ‘.csirc’

-b, -batch

Terminate after command-line processing.

-w, -no-warnings

Disable all warnings.

-K STYLE, -keyword-style STYLE

Enable alternative keyword-syntax (prefix, suffix or none)

-no-parentheses-synonyms

Disable list delimiter synonyms.

-no-symbol-escape

Disables support for escaped symbols.

-r5rs-syntax

Disable the CHICKEN extensions to R5RS syntax.

-s PATHNAME, -script PATHNAME

Use interpreter for shell scripts.

-ss PATHNAME

Run a script with a ‘main’ procedure

-sx PATHNAME

Same as -s, but print each expression as it is evaluated.

-setup-mode

Prefer the current directory when locating extensions.

-R NAME, -require-extension NAME

Import extension before executing code.

-I PATHNAME, -include-path PATHNAME

Add PATHNAME to the include path.

--

Ignore all following options.

ENVIRONMENT¶

The following environment variables change the behaviour of csi:

CSI_OPTIONS

When set to a string of command-line options, then the options are passed implicitly to every direct or indirect invocation of csi. Note that runtime options of the form ‘-:⟨OPTIONS⟩’ cannot be passed using this method.

CHICKEN_INCLUDE_PATH

Contains one or more pathnames where the interpreter should also look for include files, separated by ‘;’ characters.

FILES¶

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/chicken/csirc

Scheme file loaded on startup. ( $XDG_CONFIG_HOME defaults to $HOME/.config )

$HOME/.csirc

Scheme file loaded on startup if the previous one doesn’t exists.

EXIT STATUS¶

The csi utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO¶

chicken(1), csc(1)

More information can be found in the CHICKEN User's Manual.

AUTHORS¶

The CHICKEN Team

BUGS¶

Submit bug reports by e-mail to chicken-janitors@nongnu.org