macrostep
interactive macro-expander for Emacs (by joddie)
lisp-extra-font-lock
Highlight bound variables and quoted expressions in lisp (by Lindydancer)
| macrostep | lisp-extra-font-lock | |
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| 4 | 1 | |
| 205 | 55 | |
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| 2.8 | 10.0 | |
| about 2 months ago | about 1 year ago | |
| Emacs Lisp | Emacs Lisp | |
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macrostep
Posts with mentions or reviews of macrostep.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-06.
- use-package: does :defer t loads a package based on its autoloads?
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Do people tend to misuse the :init keyword of use-package?
Yes. Most people seem to use use-package without really understanding what it's doing. I love use-package, but I never edit use-package declarations without macrostep (also (setq use-package-expand-minimally t)) to see what it expands to.
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What packages do I need to for the best elisp editing environment?
Macrostep made me 10-20x faster at diving into, profiling, and debugging emacs lisp codebases.
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Does the use-package ":bind" command bind the keys to the global key map if it doesn't contain the "map keyword?
Try macrostep to interactively expand these nested macros.
lisp-extra-font-lock
Posts with mentions or reviews of lisp-extra-font-lock.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-06.
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What packages do I need to for the best elisp editing environment?
Paredit, Speed-of-thought lisp, Helm, perhaps Lispy but I am not using it myself. I found expand-region to work really well when writing and modifying elisp. lisp-extra-font-lock if you want some more blink (and font-lock-studio). Helpful is very good to have instead of built-in help, it displays the source code by default as well as symbol properties. It is a very informative learning experience to see how built-in stuff is implemented. I am quite lazy to press extra in built-in help to see the source code, but with Helpful, you get it auto in the same window, whicih is great for learning. Seeing symbol properties is sometimes a time saver so you don't have to M-: and type an Elisp function to see the symbol properties when debugging. Learn Edebug, it is very useful built-in application for Emacs Lisp development.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing macrostep and lisp-extra-font-lock you can also consider the following projects:
helpful - A better Emacs *help* buffer
speed-of-thought-lisp - Write elisp at the speed of thought. Emacs minor mode with abbrevs and keybinds.
.emacs.d - My current Emacs setup.
expand-region.el - Emacs extension to increase selected region by semantic units.
puni - Structured editing (soft deletion, expression navigating & manipulating) that supports many major modes out of the box.
lispy - Short and sweet LISP editing