emacs4cl VS portacle

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!

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).