emacs4cl VS emacs-noob

Yes, indeed. The output of git diff 0.1.0..0.5.0 shows that the bulk of the bloat comes from customising rainbow delimiters to show colourful parentheses.

Here's a good guide: https://github.com/susam/emacs4cl

And the excellent guide to Emacs and SLIME too. https://github.com/susam/emacs4cl

In addition to the great resources mentioned, see this guide: https://github.com/susam/emacs4cl I like it with one difference: keep the Emacs menu bar and use it to explore the available commands.

Hello! Thank you for referring to my Vim + Slimv guide. I have, in fact, two guides to set up a Common Lisp programming environment from scratch:

For Vim: https://susam.net/blog/lisp-in-vim.html

For Emacs: https://github.com/susam/emacs4cl

PPS: There's a much more well maintained and more widely used .emacs script at emacs4cl, plus a number of other resources at awesome-cl#emacs!

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.