Thanks to everyone for pointing me in the right direction.
I have my emacs+slime enviroment all set up with multiple
lisp variants. A great deal of thanks goes to Bill Clementson
his site is very helpful...
Marco Baringer thank you thank you! This is a real eye opener.
If you haven't, it's a must see.
slime.move
found here:
http://bc.tech.coop/blog/050728.html
I am also running drscheme now, in order to continue going
through the MIT videos, as far as I can tell this is the best way.
It's simple to setup and a straigh forward way to walk through
the lectures. I would recommend this setup for anyone who
needs a companion tool for the lecture series. I did try to Viper/Vim
and phew it was just too many different things for me...
Thank you again! I feel like I'm up and running...
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-jesse