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Lispbox-like emacs settings

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-21 8:01

I've just bought the dead-tree version of Practical Common Lisp and some time to go through it. To get started quickly, the author used to provide a "Lisp in a box" that isn't maintained any longer. There's a fork but it's broken on Linux x64 (it could probably be fixed but it's no quickstart).

I got SBCL, Emacs and Slime, what else a beginner reading Seibel's tutorial needs? From what I've read here Quicklisp and Paredit are recommended too? I'd like to keep things simple until I'm confortable with Lisp and Emacs. What's the easiest way?

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-21 15:12

>>2
Indeed, it seems from the first "practical" chapter that Slime would be necessary and sufficient. Still, I have installed Quicklisp out of curiosity and it looks like a neat manager. I have then reinstalled Slime through it, since it was only a command line away.

>>3
ASDF is already set up from an older Stumpwm install (which I don't use at the moment). I've read on the wiki that there's a trend to deprecate it in favor of Quicklisp, but it's still widely used and has may be has some other advantages(?)

I will save for later your other recommendations. I'm afraid to be overloaded with new things as I like to understand a bit what I'm doing. Of course I'd love to see how implementations differ: that's rewarding knowledge when you're a bit more advanced.

>>4
Hey that's great. You've got users, see. I've checked the source files but I wouldn't be of much help right now (besides reporting bug). I will follow further developments.
On a side note, Lispbox install is a double-click matter on Windows 7 64bits.

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