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<header>
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<h1class="title">Emacs</h1>
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<p>Emacs is <em>the</em> modern open source Lisp IDE. Its history and quirks extend back to the Lisp machines and early editors such as TECO.</p>
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<p>It is considered difficult to initially learn, and often disparaged due to the antiquated interface, but is generally thought the best open source free IDE for Common Lisp.</p>
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<p>In order to use emacs, there are two variants; XEmacs and GNU Emacs. I usually use GNU emacs, so I’ll talk about it here.</p>
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<p>In order to get it, you can obtain it from the <ahref="http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/">GNU</a>. Windows, Linux, and OSX versions are available. It’s also available via most Linux distributions package repositories. The most recent version is 24; 23 is also recent and works well with the Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs, a.k.a SLIME.</p>
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<p>New users can find many resources online for Emacs, including a well-written help system! An emacs tutorial can be found <ahref="http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/emacs.html">here</a>, and the GNU FAQ is also <ahref="http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-faq.text">available</a></p>
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<p>Emacs is <em>the</em> modern open source Lisp IDE. Its history and
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quirks extend back to the Lisp machines and early editors such as
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TECO.</p>
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<p>It is considered difficult to initially learn, and often disparaged
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due to the antiquated interface, but is generally thought the best
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open source free IDE for Common Lisp.</p>
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<h2>Get Emacs</h2>
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<h3>With Portacle</h3>
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<ahref="https://shinmera.github.io/portacle/">Portacle</a> is a
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portable and multiplatform Common Lisp development environment. It
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packages SBCL, Emacs25, Slime, Quicklisp and Git altogether. There is no
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installation required, so it's the easiest way to go.
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<h3>Install GNU/Emacs</h3>
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<p>In order to use emacs, there are two variants; XEmacs and GNU
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Emacs. I usually use GNU emacs, so I’ll talk about it here.</p>
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<p>In order to get it, you can obtain it from
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the <ahref="http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/">GNU</a>. Windows,
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Linux, and OSX versions are available. It’s also available via
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most Linux distributions package repositories. The most recent version
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is 25; 23 still works well with the Superior Lisp
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Interaction Mode for Emacs, a.k.a SLIME.</p>
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<p>New users can find many resources online for Emacs, including a
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well-written help system! An emacs tutorial can be
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found <ahref="http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/emacs.html">here</a>,
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and the GNU FAQ is
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also <ahref="http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-faq.text">available</a></p>
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<h2>Get SLIME</h2>
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<p>Usually you want to get SLIME installed for your development.</p>
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<p>If you’re using emacs23, SLIME can be found <ahref="http://www.common-lisp.net/project/slime/">here</a>.</p>
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<p>Emacs24 has it in its package manager (<code>M-x package-list-packages</code>).</p>
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<p>Emacs24 and onwards has it in its package manager (<code>M-x package-list-packages</code>).</p>
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<p>I like to use the following elisp to configure SLIME:</p>
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<pre><code>(require 'cl)
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(setq inferior-lisp-program "/usr/local/bin/sbcl") ;modify to taste
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(show-paren-mode t)
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<h2id="once-you-are-set-up">Once you are set up…</h2>
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<p>When you load a Lisp file and want to engage SLIME, <code>M-x slime</code> will do the trick.</p>
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<p>Paredit is a popular Lisp editing mode that the engaged student will hear about. The author recommends getting comfortable with emacs and SLIME before using Paredit, it provides several automatic s-expression editing features that surprised him on first use.</p>
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<p>When you have configured your SLIME in a <code>fancy</code> fashion, you will find a SLIME REPL (Read Evaluate Print Loop) buffer created in your Emacs window.</p>
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<p>This provides an interactive view into Common Lisp. You can evaluate functions you are writing in the source file and immediately use them in the REPL. This provides a very fast “code and test” facility.</p>
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<p>When you load a Lisp file and want to engage SLIME, <code>M-x
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slime</code> will do the trick.</p>
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<p>Paredit is a popular Lisp editing mode that the engaged student
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will hear about. The author recommends getting comfortable with emacs
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and SLIME before using Paredit, it provides several automatic
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s-expression editing features that surprised him on first use.</p>
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<p>When you have configured your SLIME in a <code>fancy</code>
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fashion, you will find a SLIME REPL (Read Evaluate Print Loop) buffer
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created in your Emacs window.</p>
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<p>This provides an interactive view into Common Lisp. You can
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evaluate functions you are writing in the source file and immediately
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use them in the REPL. This provides a very fast “code and
<p>The canonical free IDE is undoubtably emacs, but it is difficult for newbies. The author has had good experience with messing around on LispWorks.</p>
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<h2id="open-source">Open Source</h2>
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<li><p><ahref="https://shinmera.github.io/portacle/">Portacle</a> - a portable and multiplatform Common Lisp development environment. It packages SBCL, Emacs25, Slime, Quicklisp and Git altogether. No installation needed.</p></li>
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<p>In general, Lisp systems are designed around a front end to do development with. However, without an IDE, usually the best usability is to use a system with working arrow keys in the terminal. The author has investigated the <em>CCL</em> and <em>SBCL</em> systems using a plugin called Linedit; this should provide a ramp-up experience.</p>
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<p>Using emacs as an IDE and <ahref="http://sbcl.org">SBCL</a> (Steel Bank Common Lisp) is the most popular choice at this point in time for open source development. Other common systems are CCL (Clozure Common Lisp), CLISP, ABCL (Armed Bear Common Lisp) and ECL (Embeddable Common Lisp). Less common systems exist. This author recommends <em>SBCL</em> or <em>CCL</em> for beginners who are comfortable on the command line, but would like to point out that each Lisp system provides value within the general Common Lisp ecosystem.</p>
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Note that you can get SBCL packaged with Emacs, Slime, Quicklisp and
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Git with <ahref="https://shinmera.github.io/portacle/">Portacle</a>,
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a portable and multiplatform Common Lisp development environment.
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<h2id="commercial">Commercial</h2>
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<p>LispWorks and Allegro Common Lisp are the currently maintained commercial implementations with IDEs. They provide free limited-functionality personal editions. This author has had good experiences with LispWorks Personal Edition; it has limitations on its use, however.</p>
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<p>Mobile developers may find <ahref="https://wukix.com/mocl">mocl</a> a very interesting product in this space; it is a recently (2013) released Common Lisp system designed for interoperation with the base systems.</p>
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