ABLE - A Basic Lisp Editor

http://phil.nullable.eu/

by kirubakaran • 18 years ago

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newt03113• 18 years ago

Just out of curiosity: How many people on hn code in some dialect of lisp and not use emacs for it? Seems relevant considering the topic.

fp• 18 years ago

At least one, considering that PG wrote he used vi.

Apart from that, I think an 'easy' editor would help beginners. I you know neither Emacs nor Lisp, Emacs is quite a tough beast.

zandorg• 18 years ago

I should have learned Emacs at University, but they stopped teaching it the year before I arrived. And it's too much of a learning curve to learn it on my own.

ken• 18 years ago

I've never tried it, but I know of people using Cusp, the Lisp extension for Eclipse: http://bitfauna.com/projects/cusp/

kirubakaran2• 18 years ago

PG uses vi to code in Lisp, used to copy-and-paste to repl but he now drags-and-drops code to repl!!!!! 0_o

(I am not kidding)

herdrick2• 18 years ago

I hack PLT Scheme and use the DrScheme editor. I've used emacs some, and feel guilty for not using it well.

jsmcgd• 18 years ago

This is excellent! The config couldn't be any easier to understand. Fonts work right out of the box. Personally I would like some GUI tabs and a package/code/file hierarchy thing but then it might stop being a 'basic' Lisp editor.

Well done Phil Armitage!

schtog• 18 years ago

Emacs is a lot to learn but I didn't find the learning curve steep.

It was just the first tries I didn't get what was so good about it, IDEs seemed more powerful and professional but then it clicked and nothing else(except for vi perhaps) even compares.

I find Eclipse and Netbeans ridiculous. So big and slow and they do loads of things I have no use for and then they can't do the things I have use for.

And the more you learn about emacs it just gets more and more superior.

ABLE - A Basic Lisp Editor

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