ready-lisp
A distribution of Aquamacs, SBCL and SLIME which offers the simplest way to run Common Lisp on Mac OS X (by jwiegley)
elisp-demos
Demonstrate Emacs Lisp APIs (by xuchunyang)
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10.0 | 8.0 | |
about 15 years ago | 4 months ago | |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
ready-lisp
Posts with mentions or reviews of ready-lisp.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-17.
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Help with CLHS license
A few weeks ago, I was interested to actually include HS as info files I found in GCL or the one I found in an old package by Wiegley, into some form in SLY or as a standalone package for reading in Emacs info. While looking for info files, I found this old discussion on GCLs mailing list. It seemed like they included the standard, not the draft. Note the mail by Maguire in which he informs that the issue has been solved "offline". Up to date as I write this, GCL comes with those info files.
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Is there a version of Hyperspec with better user experience?
Both cl-community-spec and nova-spec looks very nice; I haven't seen any of them before; however, I prefer hyperspec directly in Emacs, so I can read it with C-h i. I have found two different versions that work nice, one is by J. Wiegley in his ready-lisp, it also has asdf in texinfo. Another one is in GCL; I have just cloned the repo and pointed Emacs to texinfo sources. In both cases it requires the manual installation; but I prefer to not have to toggle between Emacs and Browser. Eww probably works, but I found it to be slightly slow; reading offline manual in info mode is just way too faster to be ignored IMO :).
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Good short documentation for CL functions (etc.) available?
Anyway, we do lack Common Lisp info manuals in Emacs docs. You can git clone from the Gcl compiler, or clone from J. Wigleys read-lisp, but you will have to manually install them into Emacs (thus far). Gcl have lots of parts related to Gcl itself, but the hyperspec works fine (just ignore gcl parts), while Wiegleys is just hyperspec.
elisp-demos
Posts with mentions or reviews of elisp-demos.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-27.
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Quickly learning some LISP basics for using emacs?
The packages helpful and elisp-demos are super useful because they enhance Emacs' built-in documentation.
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Emacs terminology
Since you seem interested, have a look at elisp-demos , too. It works in tandem with helpful.
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Good short documentation for CL functions (etc.) available?
Elisp Docs are fantastic they have documented everything while with CL most documentation is missing or only on the Web. With Emacs, one need to learn about C-h f (describe-function), C-h k (describe-key), helpful.el and elisp-demos and a new world opens. Terminology is always different, simple example: Microsoft terminology sounds like bullshit, to a Unix person.
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It's been a while since this exists. I just want to mention what a good idea it was and how useful that little link is. Thanks
I really like helpful with elisp-demos.
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About to declare emacs bankruptcy before I lose my job
Emacs is by far not as buggy as you described. Go and get yourself a good book like "Mastering Emacs". Work through it (especially the "Getting Help" part) and learn some Emacs Lisp. Install and use the package helpful and elisp-demos. Also, edebug-defun is your friend.
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Emacs lisp api sucks
Two packages I find worth mentioning to aid documentation: helpful and elisp-demos. I find the demo/snippets pretty handy.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ready-lisp and elisp-demos you can also consider the following projects:
cl-community-spec - A Common Lisp specification, made from the original ANSI specification drafts
helpful - A better Emacs *help* buffer
popper - Emacs minor-mode to summon and dismiss buffers easily.
homebrew-emacsmacport - Emacs mac port formulae for the Homebrew package manager
eglot - A client for Language Server Protocol servers
homebrew-emacs-plus - Emacs Plus formulae for the Homebrew package manager
solarized-emacs - The Solarized colour theme, ported to Emacs.
more-docstrings - Augment the docstring of built-in CL functions
cl-cookbook - The Common Lisp Cookbook
build-emacs-for-macos - Somewhat hacky script to automate building of Emac.app on macOS.