2.8 Leaving Scheme

There are several ways that you can leave Scheme: there are two Scheme procedures that you can call; there are several Edwin commands that you can execute; and there are are graphical-interface buttons (and their associated keyboard accelerators) that you can activate.

• Two Scheme procedures that you can call. The first is to evaluate

            (exit)
  

  which will halt the Scheme system, after first requesting confirmation. Any information that was in the environment is lost, so this should not be done lightly.

  The second procedure suspends Scheme; when this is done you may later restart where you left off. Unfortunately this is not possible in all operating systems; currently it works under unix versions that support job control (i.e. all of the unix versions for which we distribute Scheme). To suspend Scheme, evaluate

            (quit)
  

  If your system supports suspension, this will cause Scheme to stop, and you will be returned to the shell. Scheme remains stopped, and can be continued using the job-control commands of your shell. If your system doesn't support suspension, this procedure does nothing. (Calling the quit procedure is analogous to typing C-z, but it allows Scheme to respond by typing a prompt when it is unsuspended.)

• Several Edwin commands that you can execute, including save-buffers-kill-scheme, normally bound to C-x C-c, and suspend-scheme, normally bound to C-x C-z. These two commands correspond to the procedures exit and quit, respectively.
• Graphical-interface buttons that you can activate. Under Windows, closing the console window (Scheme's main window) causes Scheme to be terminated. Under any operating system, closing an Edwin window causes that window to go away, and if it is the only Edwin window, it terminates Scheme as well.