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	(Incidentally, <code>emacs</code> scripts are written in "elisp," a language closely related to Scheme.)		(Incidentally, <code>emacs</code> scripts are written in "elisp," a language closely related to Scheme.)
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		+	If you don't use emacs (or derivatives such as [[w:Aquamacs|Aquamacs]]), it would be good to find another editor that supports a Scheme mode. For example, [http://www.jedit.org/ jEdit] is a free/open-source cross-platform editor with Scheme-syntax support. Another option is [http://projects.gnome.org/gedit/ GNU gedit] (for GNU/Linux and Unix); in fact, S. Hessam Moosavi Mehr has donated a [http://github.com/hessammehr/meepmpb-highlight hilighting mode for Meep/MPB] that specially highlights the Meep/MPB keywords.

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It is useful to have emacs use its scheme-mode for editing ctl files, so that hitting tab indents nicely, and so on. emacs does this automatically for files ending with ".scm"; to do it for files ending with ".ctl" as well, add the following lines to your ~/.emacs file:

(if (assoc "\\.ctl" auto-mode-alist)
    nil
  (nconc auto-mode-alist '(("\\.ctl" . scheme-mode))))

(Incidentally, emacs scripts are written in "elisp," a language closely related to Scheme.)

If you don't use emacs (or derivatives such as Aquamacs), it would be good to find another editor that supports a Scheme mode. For example, jEdit is a free/open-source cross-platform editor with Scheme-syntax support. Another option is GNU gedit (for GNU/Linux and Unix); in fact, S. Hessam Moosavi Mehr has donated a hilighting mode for Meep/MPB that specially highlights the Meep/MPB keywords.