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22.1.1 Compilation and Configuration: raco
22.1.2 Interactive evaluation: XREPL
22.1.3 Bash completion
Version: 5.3

22.1 Command-Line Tools

Racket provides, as part of its standard distribution, a number of command-line tools that can make racketeering more pleasant.

22.1.1 Compilation and Configuration: raco

The raco (short for “Racket command”) program provides a command-line interface to many additional tools for compiling Racket programs and maintaining a Racket installation.

For more information on raco, see raco: Racket Command-Line Tools.

22.1.2 Interactive evaluation: XREPL

The Racket distribution includes XREPL (eXtended REPL), which provides everything you expect from a modern interactive environment. For example, XREPL provides an ,enter command to have a REPL that runs in the context of a given module, and an ,edit command to invoke your editor (as specified by the EDITOR environment variable) on the file you entered. A ,drracket command makes it easy to use your favorite editor to write code, and still have DrRacket at hand to try things out.

For more information about XREPL, see XREPL: eXtended REPL.

22.1.3 Bash completion

Shell auto-completion for bash is available in "collects/meta/contrib/completion/racket-completion.bash". To enable it, just run the file from your .bashrc.

The "meta" collection is only available in the Racket Full distribution. The completion script is also available online.