An editor is an editor after all Isn't it?

Posted by kathe on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @06:34AM
from the self-post dept.

Just re-starting on Lisp after a gap of 18 years. Worked on AutoLISP, now moving to Common-Lisp. Never used Emacs before, but see it being recommended by CL grey-beards. Is Emacs mandatory for CL programming? If yes, why? Shouldn't Vim with syntax-highlighting and indentation rules be good enough?

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Re:An editor is an editor after all Isn't it? by gregchapple on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @06:57AM (#7626883)

The simple answer is that Emacs has fantastic support for working with Lisp code. Have a look at this page for a more detailed explanataion: http://cl-cookbook.sourceforge.net/emacs-ide.html#Slide-2

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