How to write Common Lisp in 2017 – an initiation manual

Re:How to write Common Lisp in 2017 – an initiation manual by na85 on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @03:21PM (#13979766)

If emacs is an obstacle to Common Lisp in 2017, maybe what's needed is a Lisp-interaction plugin for vi(m) (or whatever it is that vim uses in lieu of emacs modes). I don't get the hype for modal editing but you can't argue with the data clearly showing emacs users are in the minority.

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Re:How to write Common Lisp in 2017 – an initiation manual by dlowe-net on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @03:41PM (#13979947)

slimv is a swank client for using Common Lisp inside vim. http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2531

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Re:How to write Common Lisp in 2017 – an initiation manual by isaiahg on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @01:10AM (#13983594)

I used to have a problem with emacs. But just a few days ago I finally sat down to finally learn it and now, 2 days later, can no longer imagine life without it.

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Re:How to write Common Lisp in 2017 – an initiation manual by ethagnawl on Thursday March 30, 2017 @04:56PM (#13998792)

I've never used Emacs, so I can't really say how it compares to Slime, but I've thoroughly enjoyed using Vim-Slime[0] and Tmux[1] for development in lots of languages (CL, Racket, Clojure, Ruby, JS, SQL, Haskell, Bash, etc.).

- https://github.com/jpalardy/vim-slime

- https://tmux.github.io/

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Re:How to write Common Lisp in 2017 – an initiation manual by pnathan on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @01:47AM (#13983764)

Quoting this dead (and useful) comment for others who don't browse showdead:

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l04m33 3 hours ago [dead] [-]

I wrote a new CL plugin for Vim, which only depends on +channel and supports most SLIME features: https://github.com/l04m33/vlime It's quite new, and I'd be grateful if you could try it out and provide some feedback.

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Re:How to write Common Lisp in 2017 – an initiation manual by l04m33 on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @08:18AM (#13985293)

Thank you.

A new user introducing his own work in the first comment did seem suspicious, but I tried to make it relevant, and didn't mean to spam around.

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Re:How to write Common Lisp in 2017 – an initiation manual by l04m33 on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @10:33PM (#13982856)

I wrote a new CL plugin for Vim, which only depends on +channel and supports most SLIME features: https://github.com/l04m33/vlime

It's quite new, and I'd be grateful if you could try it out and provide some feedback.

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Re:How to write Common Lisp in 2017 – an initiation manual by kahrkunne on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @06:11PM (#13981229)

Honestly I don't think Emacs is an obstacle to people who use Vim. It's an obstacle to people who use IDEs

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Re:How to write Common Lisp in 2017 – an initiation manual by aidenn0 on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @10:27AM (#13986499)

IMO, It's an obstacle only to people who don't use IDEs.

Someone who uses e.g. visual studio for C++ isn't going to balk at the suggestion of installing IntelliJ for Java, and I doubt that they would balk at the suggestion of installing SLIME for lisp.

In my experience it's people who live in their editor (sublime, vim, &c.) that balk at the idea of installing an IDE as the first step for using a new language.

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Re:How to write Common Lisp in 2017 – an initiation manual by ruleabidinguser on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @11:46PM (#13983217)

I use(d) vim and see EMacs as annoying.

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Re:How to write Common Lisp in 2017 – an initiation manual by cat199 on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @12:10PM (#13987640)

I use vi and emacs and see vim as some odd vi that is trying to be emacs but ends up being neither.

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Re:How to write Common Lisp in 2017 – an initiation manual by kahrkunne on Thursday March 30, 2017 @12:30PM (#13996798)

It might be annoying but it probably wouldn't be an "obstacle", especially considering things like evil-mode exist.

That's how it went for me, anyways. From vim user to trying Emacs because it has some feature that I need to becoming a full-time Emacs users with evil-mode

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