Re:Ask HN: I want to start learning Lisp. Where do I begin?
by klibertp on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @12:21PM
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About the editor:
In general you can use any editor, but there are some features which your editor should have to make your life easier. I wrote a blog post about it some time ago: https://klibert.pl/posts/tools_for_lisp_syntax.html
Basically, syntax highlighting, automatic matching paren insertion, ability to jump to a matching paren are the baseline. If you can get those with a plugin to VSCode or Vim, you're good to go.
In general you can use any editor, but there are some features which your editor should have to make your life easier. I wrote a blog post about it some time ago: https://klibert.pl/posts/tools_for_lisp_syntax.html
Basically, syntax highlighting, automatic matching paren insertion, ability to jump to a matching paren are the baseline. If you can get those with a plugin to VSCode or Vim, you're good to go.