cl-livedocs vs magic-ed

cl-livedocs

Live web documentation browser for Common Lisp. Based on Webinfo project. (by mmontone)

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Editing facility for Common Lisp REPL (by sanel)

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cl-livedocs		magic-ed
	Project
3	Mentions	1
2	Stars	22
-	Growth	-
10.0	Activity	10.0
almost 3 years ago	Latest Commit	about 4 years ago
Common Lisp	Language	Common Lisp
-	License	MIT License

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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?
11 projects | /r/lisp | 17 May 2023

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?
3 projects | /r/lisp | 31 Jul 2022

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?
6 projects | /r/lisp | 19 Jul 2022

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)

magic-ed

Posts with mentions or reviews of magic-ed. 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?
11 projects | /r/lisp | 17 May 2023

Without Lem, how do you edit files? We need to edit and load files in the REPL. magic-ed could help. What if before loading the file, we added some style criticisms? The lisp-critic is waiting to be adopted and expanded (while colisper has too simple rules).

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cl-livedocs and magic-ed you can also consider the following projects:

slime-doc-contribs - Documentation contribs for SLIME (the Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs)

sbcli - A REPL for my SBCL needs

repl-utilities - Ease common tasks at the REPL.

lisp-critic - The Lisp Critic scans your code for instances of bad Lisp programming practice.

RLWRAP-SBCL-LISP-COMPLETIONS - How to enable TAB completions of common lisp commands using SBCL

docbrowser - Browse Common Lisp docstrings

clesh - CLESH a very short and simple program, written in Common Lisp, that extends Common Lisp to embed shell code in a manner similar to perl's backtick.

lisp-system-browser - Smalltalk-like system browser for Common Lisp.

cl-repl - A full-featured repl implementation designed to work with Roswell

clog - CLOG - The Common Lisp Omnificent GUI