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Re:How to write Common Lisp in 2017 – an initiation manual by lispm on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @06:12AM (#13984743)
> Then the debugger starts when this form is evaluated.

You mean the stepper using break-instrumented code? That's just a part of what one would call 'debugger' in Lisp.

What CIDER calls 'debugger' would be mostly called 'stepper' in Lisp.

http://franz.com/products/allegro-common-lisp/stepper_dialog...

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw70/IDE-M/html/ide-m...

> Adding breakpoints is somewhat easier with cider, you don't need to call break but you can just add a breakpoint to any sexp by pressing b.

LispWorks does that, too. Usually via a break icon in the window toolbar or the context menu.

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