Launching MIT Scheme

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Can you help me to figure out how to use MIT Scheme? The Edwin editor. There is a huge field to type but it doesn't respond. It allows me to evaluate expressions in the bottom tiny field only when I type esc twice in a row.enter image description here

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Have you tried to read the manual or to use the online help? - Rainer Joswig
@RainerJoswig Yes I did. Several times. It didn't help. - user13
Are you able to do a Ctrl-x Ctrl-e to evaluate the 564 shown in your picture? Reference: gnu.org/software/mit-scheme/documentation/mit-scheme-user/… - Flux
@Flux That is the problem. I read it. It doesn't do anything. It just types C(Ctrl)-x in the bottom part instead of 'Evaluate expression:' that is shown in the picture. - user13
The only thing that works is M-z - user13

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Edwin is an editor; it is not a interactive shell. The big empty space is used to write a scheme file. I think you to work in an interactive shell.

Open a console window and type "scheme" to work in an interactive shell. To write a scheme-program-file you can use an editor in ascii-mode. Use the suffix "scm" to store the file. To run it, type in the scheme-shell:

(load "start.scm")

40 years ago scheme and edwin were distributed by texas instruments. With these tools I started to love programming. Today I am working under ubuntu and I am using emacs as editor and a bash-shell running MIT/Gnu-Scheme. 5 year ago tryed edwin agin, but I preferd emacs.

The most people would suggest to use DrRacket. What Operation System you are using?