LISP IDE

Proton · Posted: Mon May 19, 2003 6:27 pm Post subject: LISP IDE

Hi all.

I have a project to do this semester in Artificial Inteligence, and we must develop it in Ansi Common Lisp. Now, I know I can use emacs for that, but I never liked it much (I'm more of a vim guy) and a nice IDE would be really nice, something on the lines of DrScheme, for instance.

It's just that I need it to be both a GUI and an interpreter...

Well, if you know about anything like this, please let me know.
Thanks.
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zhenlin · Veteran Joined: 09 Nov 2002 Posts: 1361

Since emacs is one of the more dominating programs in the Free Software world, I doubt there is. Besides, what better LISP IDE than one written in LISP, with a LISP-dialect API?

maxmc · Posted: Tue May 20, 2003 11:44 am Post subject:

Writing Lisp in emacs is THE way, since most of the intendation etc and how the program flows relies on how emacs autoindents your file.

I used allegro-commonlisp with emacs and that worked great, although allegro is a commercial product.

Kummer · Posted: Tue May 20, 2003 1:56 pm Post subject:

Take a look at Jabberwocky, it's pretty nice.

maxmc · Posted: Tue May 20, 2003 6:00 pm Post subject:

Yuuck!
It's Java based... => Slow as hell and a memory hog?

Proton · Posted: Tue May 20, 2003 8:21 pm Post subject:

Hmm, I guess I will have to learn emacs... -sigh-

I don't find it intuitive at all...
Or Jabberwocky, I don't know... Will have to see.

Thanks everyone!
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porter · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 95

Try Anjuta, in my opinion it is a well looking multi functional texteditor with syntaxhighlighting. Visit www.anjuta.org for further details.
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Grapes · n00b Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 43

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maxmc · Posted: Wed May 21, 2003 5:25 pm Post subject:

Emacs quick guide:

Ctrl = C
Meta/Alt = M

C-x-C-c = Quit
C-x-C-s = Save
C-x-C-w = Save As
C-s = Search forward
C-r = Search in reverse
C-% = Search and replace
C-h t = Tutorial
M-x apropos = apropos help.
M-x font-lock-mode = Turns on and off colors

Proton · Posted: Wed May 21, 2003 6:47 pm Post subject:

Thanks for all your replies, first of all.

Grapes · n00b Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 43

very true, I guess i didn't read your post fully. sorry about that. We'll then, if you are used to using drScheme, (which i'm assuming you are) emacs has many of the same keystrokes. I'm pretty sure the editor in drScheme was based on emacs. Plus I believe most of the time, you can use the emacs split screne to run an intperetor right there. Someone let me know if i'm wrong. Again, sorry i read your post wrong

Proton · Posted: Fri May 23, 2003 5:34 am Post subject:

maxmc · Posted: Sat May 24, 2003 1:58 pm Post subject:

Pushing for emacs again, here's a great intro:
GNU EMACS : Taking The first And Right Steps

ghetto · Guru Joined: 10 Jul 2002 Posts: 369 Location: BC, Canada

oh fine.. i guess I'll try emacs too..
but first I just have to ask a few questions:

Which is better xemacs or emacs.

As I understand it xemacs is a different program which was forked from the main emacs code. Was there a good reason for this? Did anything really exciting come out of it?
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Nuwen · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 Mar 2003 Posts: 123

I think the main reason xemacs was forked was the X interface, but I think the latest emacs fixes that pretty well. I think it's pretty much a toss up these days, xemacs (arguably) does X and a few other things a bit better, but I don't know of anything really important. I'd say start out with the original emacs just because it's more standard.

Grapes · n00b Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 43

I like xemacs better. It is a little more gui-y (spelling? gooy, gooie, ?) It seems to use more resourses though. Most of the keystrokes are the same and all. It's really not that much different. And there is not much that one can do that the othere can't. I'd say try both and see what you like.

Szplug

It's better gui-wise than it used to be. You just have to hope it's stable that day

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Get it from cvs at: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs

ghetto · Guru Joined: 10 Jul 2002 Posts: 369 Location: BC, Canada

I really like emacs so far.. its an amazing experience =)

..but I wish that there was a gtk2 front end for it. The Gui is one of the ugliest things I have ever witnessed. Sorry, just being honest.

I hope that someday someone starts development on GMACS :twisted:

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steingrim · n00b Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 34 Location: Oslo, Norway

ghetto · Guru Joined: 10 Jul 2002 Posts: 369 Location: BC, Canada

wow I have to say emacs-21.3.50 is great!

It has a mostly gtk2 interface so it looks tones better. I just hope its stable enough to use as my main editor.

Thanks for that heads up on emacs-cvs :twisted:

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