cl-livedocs
Live web documentation browser for Common Lisp. Based on Webinfo project. (by mmontone)
docbrowser
Browse Common Lisp docstrings (by lokedhs)
cl-livedocs | docbrowser | |
---|---|---|
3 | 3 | |
2 | 15 | |
- | - | |
10.0 | 0.0 | |
almost 3 years ago | almost 2 years ago | |
Common Lisp | HTML | |
- | - |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
cl-livedocs
Posts with mentions or reviews of cl-livedocs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-17.
-
Improving REPL experience in terminal?
and this prints the documentation of concatenate. As you mentioned, repl-utilities has a few utilities, such as printing a summary for a system. We could go further and ship a web-based image browser, like livedocs.
-
How do you list which symbols are available for a particular package?
New-ish projects give you a GUI to browse packages and their symbols (functions, macros, variables): https://github.com/mmontone/cl-livedocs, https://github.com/lokedhs/docbrowser, https://github.com/mmontone/lisp-system-browser
-
Does Common Lisp or CLOS have some library or facility that provides the easy access to an object's methods and properties that Smalltalk does?
Also https://github.com/mmontone/cl-livedocs might help (start a local server and view all packages, classes, functions, variables… of the current image. With full text search. (also docbrowser)
docbrowser
Posts with mentions or reviews of docbrowser.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-31.
-
How do you list which symbols are available for a particular package?
New-ish projects give you a GUI to browse packages and their symbols (functions, macros, variables): https://github.com/mmontone/cl-livedocs, https://github.com/lokedhs/docbrowser, https://github.com/mmontone/lisp-system-browser
-
Does Common Lisp or CLOS have some library or facility that provides the easy access to an object's methods and properties that Smalltalk does?
Also https://github.com/mmontone/cl-livedocs might help (start a local server and view all packages, classes, functions, variables… of the current image. With full text search. (also docbrowser)
-
How to improve help in SLY/SLIME?
You are describing docbrowser! https://github.com/lokedhs/docbrowser
What are some alternatives?
When comparing cl-livedocs and docbrowser you can also consider the following projects:
magic-ed - Editing facility for Common Lisp REPL
montezuma - Full-text indexing and search for Common Lisp
slime-doc-contribs - Documentation contribs for SLIME (the Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs)
mgl-pax - Documentation system, browser, generator.
repl-utilities - Ease common tasks at the REPL.
clus-data - Data for Common Lisp UltraSpec - http://phoe.tymoon.eu/clus/
sbcli - A REPL for my SBCL needs
lisp-system-browser - Smalltalk-like system browser for Common Lisp.
clog - CLOG - The Common Lisp Omnificent GUI
closer-mop - Closer to MOP is a compatibility layer that rectifies many of the absent or incorrect CLOS MOP features across a broad range of Common Lisp implementations.