cl-repl VS commands

But you don't have syntax highlighting :( On errors, the debugger looks arcane… cl-repl or sbcli might help. With sbcli, you even don't have the interactive debugger, only the stacktrace. It's easier for beginners (or for quick development). They are based on readline and do some things well (match parenthesis, multiline input for cl-repl).

In order to get syntax highlighting as well as tab completion I have been using cl-repl. I have been having this issue, as well as another issue with cl-repl inheriting some stuff, but do not seem to have the same issue in sbcl either. Could it be a bug in cl-repl? Is there a solid alternative for sbcl?

If you are doing it for learning, that's fine! But otherwise you could check out and contribute to Alive for VSCode. There's also cl-repl which I think can be distributed in the form of binary images.

Then, of course, a solution is to run the scripts from our editor… or from a friendly terminal-based interface? There's Lish, the Lem editor (for CL, Python and other languages), friendly REPLs… (cl-repl)

It's CodeMirror! All I had to do was write a Janet grammar for it -- very easy to do. CodeMirror is pretty amazing -- I was able to implement the "edit values with your mouse" by just asking CodeMirror for the syntax node under the cursor, checking if it parsed as a number, and if so replacing it with a different string.

https://codemirror.net/

https://github.com/ianthehenry/codemirror-lang-janet

I went with CodeMirror after reading this post that compares a few different editor components: https://blog.replit.com/codemirror and I've been super happy with it.

The wrighter editor is built on top of codemirror and bytemd. codemirror is the go-to choice when it comes to flexible/hackable text editing and bytemd provides a nice wrapper for codemirror using react with some extra functionalities. I wanted to create a fork of bytemd that includes all the WYSIWYM features that I built for wrighter, but it was out of scope and takes too much time.

I will just use technology I am familiar with. Tauri + CodeMirror + CM's Common Lisp mode should hopefully get me a long way.

And the second video is an example of me converting some messy vanilla JavaScript code for initializing and accessing multiple CodeMirror code editors to clean, encapsulated, well-organized web component code. (Still vanilla!)

You can check out the CodeMirror library - https://codemirror.net/ It seems to be great match for this case.

Try it out in your editor and it should work a dream. For all of the possible commands, you can add check out the command repo's README.