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A tiny DIY kit to set up vanilla Emacs for Common Lisp programming

19 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 7 stories, 12 comments · first 2020-12-11 · latest 2025-12-11

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  1. …in both my Common Lisp setup guides for Vim and Emacs: https://susam.net/lisp-in-vim.html https://github.com/susam/emacs4cl However, for my personal projects, I usually just download the package versions I need from GitHub with curl within…
    comment by susam · 2025-12-11 · in Common Lisp, ASDF, and Quicklisp: packaging explained
  2. …how to create such a development environment from scratch and get started with such a setup: • https://github.com/susam/emacs4cl • https://susam.net/lisp-in-vim.html There are commercial implementation + IDEs too which according to many…
    comment by susam · 2024-02-22 · in Reading "A Programmer's Guide to Common Lisp"
  3. …programming environment from scratch: For Vim: https://susam.net/blog/lisp-in-vim.html For Emacs: https://github.com/susam/emacs4cl
    comment by susam · 2022-08-14 · in Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming (1992)
  4. …also made Emacs4CL - minimal configuration of stock/vanilla Emacs for Common Lisp development: https://github.com/susam/emacs4cl
    comment by alekq · 2021-12-19 · in Lisp in Vim with Slimv or Vlime (2019)
  5. …up to date so most beginners start with Portacle these days. [1] https://portacle.github.io/ [2] https://github.com/susam/emacs4cl
    comment by yourapostasy · 2021-09-01 · in Some thoughts about raising the profile of Lisp
  6. I think https://portacle.github.io/ is quite close to a one click installer. Also, I have shared https://github.com/susam/emacs4cl which provides a quick starter file to set up Emacs for Common Lisp development pretty quickly.…
    comment by susam · 2021-08-14 · in Thoughts On Lisp And Racket (2019)
  7. …which is a really quick way to set up a working environment with a few clicks. There is also https://github.com/susam/emacs4cl that I wrote to offer as a quick-starter DIY alternative for those who want to use vanilla Emacs and want to…
    comment by susam · 2021-03-12 · in From Vim to Emacs in fourteen days (2015)
  8. …(as a Show HN post) that turns Emacs into a Common Lisp development environment pretty quickly: https://github.com/susam/emacs4cl . It provides a good middle ground between configuring Emacs manually by installing SLIME, Paredit, etc.…
    comment by susam · 2020-12-21 · in Getting Started with Lisp (2019)
  9. …from the first principles. On similar lines, I did a relevant "Show HN" post here today: Emacs4CL: https://github.com/susam/emacs4cl (35 lines of ~/.emacs to turn Emacs into Common Lisp dev environment) It bothers me a little when someone…
    comment by susam · 2020-12-16 · in Ask HN: I want to start learning Lisp. Where do I begin?
  10. …Lisp Survey 2020: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfg7UJRKrkI3OjOHWL4... [4]: Emacs4CL: https://github.com/susam/emacs4cl [5]: Lisp in Vim with Slimv or Vlime: https://susam.in/blog/lisp-in-vim-with-slimv-or-vlime/ [6]: Load…
    comment by susam · 2020-12-16 · in Ask HN: I want to start learning Lisp. Where do I begin?
  11. …up SLIME, Paredit, etc. in Emacs quickly. The section "Line-by-Line Explanation" of the README at https://github.com/susam/emacs4cl#line-by-line-explanation explains every line of the .emacs file. It provides a middle ground between…
    comment by susam · 2020-12-16 · in Show HN: Emacs4CL: 35 line .emacs to turn Emacs into Common Lisp dev environment
  12. …Lisp set up Emacs in a DIY fashion rather than just installing the often recommended Portacle: https://github.com/susam/emacs4cl . Indeed the first few things this guide indulges in is to set up the user interface as follows before getting…
    comment by susam · 2020-12-12 · in Emacs Survey 2020 Results