emacs-noob VS portacle

Emacs works reasonably fine. Here's a branch that intends to provide the more familiar key bindings.

PS: I do have an emacs-noob/slime-company that might come handy. This shouldn't depend on anything specific to the OS. (Check the different branches to see which suits the OP/reader's needs!)

(Shameless plug) I'm maintaining a (still quite experimental because I don't personally use it) emacs-noob for people new to emacs but not wanting any long term relation with emacs, or want to focus on learning common lisp first and emacs second. You might find slime-company or slime-company-modern branches useful if this fits your use case.

I attempted emacs-noob/emacs-modern for some of my teammates for developing with common-lisp. It's still very much a new and untested thing though.

But if emacs becomes too-difficult-too-soon in most part due to key-bindings (definitely worth learning for life!), I recently had a try at digikar99/emacs-noob/slime-company-modern for some of my friends, which packs "familiar" key-bindings, but does require a separate installation of a compiler.

I suspect I'm not going to find enough time to maintain a full-fledged VSCode key-bound. I've put up something primitive at digikar99/slime-company-modern and digikar99/emacs-modern.

I agree that it's a hurdle.

Portacle, https://portacle.github.io/ , is a way around config and whatnot, lowering the threshold a little.

Reminder that Portacle is a way to try Common Lisp (and its tooling!) in a portable, self-contained way, on all platforms.

https://portacle.github.io/

Thanks for your work! I can definitely see how your project improve CL's accessibility. Not sure if you're aware of the Portacle project, but I think there is an opportunity merging two projects together.

Also it is not much of a kit either since the user is left to install all the tools on their own. User who wants an easy to start kit with Emacs baked in is much better using Portacle or clean Emacs, or some of more polished Emacs distributions like Doom or Prelude together with Roswell for the "kit" part.

Then there's Portacle, a portable Emacs with SBCL, Quicklisp and Emacs goodies (magit, file-tree…) pre-installed. https://portacle.github.io/

There are some updates about Portacle last year. The latest is 1.4c Pre-release. https://github.com/portacle/portacle/releases Without Mac, can not verify it.

See also Portacle: https://portacle.github.io/ It is a portable Emacs that is ready-to-use for CL: it comes with Slime, some Emacs packages, Quicklisp and git.

Others have covered the language, but you'll also want tooling. An easy one to get started with is Portacle. It's a Lisp compiler, emacs with Lisp plugins, QuickLisp package manager, etc. so you don't have to spend time setting it all up.

1) I also love VSCode ... but for Lisp Emacs really is so much better. Look at Portacle. It basically is Emacs that's well configured for Common Lisp with SBCL right out of the box. You'll have to learn how SLIME work (the shortcuts to recompile running Lisp, etc).