Installing Common Lisp, Emacs, Slime & Quicklisp
Why Stack Overflow recommends it
Stack Overflow users link it when newcomers to Common Lisp need a working Emacs, Slime, SBCL and Quicklisp setup, especially on Windows.
Recommended by 2 people across 5 different months, 2013 to 2018.
What it is
A screen-recorded tutorial by Baggers that walks through setting up a Common Lisp development environment on Windows. It installs SBCL as the implementation, Emacs as the editor, Quicklisp for library management and Slime to turn Emacs into a Common Lisp IDE.
What people said
Recommends Baggers · 2013-08 · Stack Overflow · on “My Quicksort doesn't work with negative numbers (Common Lisp)”
You are trying to return the -1th element of a list which won't work. nth returns the nth element of the list so (nth 0 '(1 2 3)) will return 1. But at some point in your code it calls (nth -1 (-5 -80 -4 -1 0 0 ...)) and boom! Other notes about your code: Putting the closing ) on a seperate line is not good lisp style and makes your code harder to read. Lisp code is made of lists, the parens are not really like the curly braces of other languages. Use an editor that supports your language. I recommend Vim with Slim or Emacs with slime. If you use emacs with slime this video may help you get started [this video] . Dont use camel casing in your names. All symbols are upcased in common lisp when the
Recommends Baggers · 2013-10 · Stack Overflow · on “Change the color of the text in the Common Lisp REPL”
Well I don’t know how slime scratch will help with colours but if you have slime installed then you already have slime scratch. If you don’t use emacs and slime then it isn’t something that can be installed separately. If you want to look into how to install slime and emacs then have a look here: [this video] do note though that this is about lisp devlopment, I have no idea how slime scratch relates to coloured output
Recommends Baggers · 2013-12 · Stack Overflow · on “cl-opengl under SLIME on MacOS crashing SBCL... bug?”
I have been looking through my setup to see what was different OS X 10.9 SBCL 1.1.8.0-19cda10 slime-20131003 But the most likely offender is still slime/swank. I really recommend using quicklisp to manage your slime setup rather than macports, this will keep both slime and swank in sync and up to date. I've been using slime this way for a year or two and have had no issues so far. From the quicklisp page [LINK] : To install and configure SLIME, use: (ql:quickload "quicklisp-slime-helper") Then follow the directions it displays. quicklisp-slime-helper will create a file you can load in Emacs that configures the right load-path for loading Quicklisp's installation of SLIME I also made a small
Recommends Baggers · 2014-11 · Stack Overflow · on “emacs slime can not connect to swank”
@yeeugene: If you are stuck, see if this guide help. It is how to set up common-lisp, slime & emacs on windows 7-64 [this video]
Recommends audrow · 2016-08 · Stack Overflow · on “Getting started with ASDF package management and Common Lisp”
To answer my own question: So, how to do your "Hello World!" with ASDF build system? Here's what worked for me. I'll help you side-step the time-consuming traps that I fell into. Watch this video [this video] . He explains installation of sbcl , emacs , quicklisp (a Lisp library manager), slime [LINK] , and quickproject , which sets up a project with ASDF . Now to side-step a few traps: slime didn't seem to work with clisp . I had to use scbl [LINK] . Note, I'm on ubuntu 16.04. You must have your .asd file in the path of your ASDF system. You can accomplish this by working in ~/common-lisp/ ; if you don't have it you can make it. See here [LINK] to setup ASDF to look in other directories. Once yo
Cites anquegi · 2015-07 · Stack Overflow · on “Does anyone have a CUSP plugin for Eclipse (Common Lisp)”
Maybe you can run it from source in the wiki page [LINK] there is an easy explanation : Getting Cusp running from source Check out the repository with the command "svn checkout [LINK] cusp-read-only" Import the project into Eclipse (File > Import > Existing Projects into Workspace) Create an sbcl directory in the project. Put sbcl in there. Make sure to include the sbcl executable. Run Cusp as a plugin, and behold the glory! (Run > Run... > Eclipse Application > New) Sometimes you need to provide .classpath file to compile and launch plugin from development environment. Here is what you can do: Go to File->New->Project->Plug-in Project Keep everything default and create temporary project. Th
Cites jakHunter · 2018-07 · Stack Overflow · on “Can you use emacs to program in common lisp?”
During my course on lisp programming I used the lispworks IDE trial version, which is a very good IDE but it's still a trial version. I searched for a new IDE. And I saw this video [this video] . In which he uses slime sbcl and quicklisp to program in common lisp on emacs. My question is how is that possible?Doesn't emacs come with it's own dialect of lisp which is known as Emacs lisp or are they separate from each other?