Questions tagged [common-lisp]
Editing Common Lisp code and working with inferior Common Lisp read-eval-print loops. Note that Emacs's Lisp dialect is not Common Lisp; for Emacs Lisp, use the tag [elisp].
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Given a brand new asdf project, how do I get a loaded system
Full newbie here, trying to try common lisp. I'm stuck at the very beginning, so I'm obviously missing some naming / nomenclature / subtlety about asdf and (potentially ?) sly. I followed the cookbook:...
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What is the best common lisp language server protocol to install in emacs?
I'm looking for the best lsp to program in common lisp in emacs along with slime, I tried to download cl-lsp but I couldn't! I would like to know if there are any other known lsp...
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How to install common lisp with emacs and SLIME when the slime-helper.el is not automatically generated?
I want to get started with Common Lisp and I follow this guide to install it on my arch linux machine. However, this call fails: (load (expand-file-name "~/.quicklisp/slime-helper.el")) ......
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Reading Common Lisp Source Code Inside Emacs?
I think emacs is just brilliant. The help functionality with C-h is extremely useful. Recently, I started coding in SB Common Lisp. It would be very useful if I could search the definitions of ...
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How can I configure Slime to use case sensitive symbols?
In emacs lisp variables are not case sensitive, so if I define a variable x, I can access it using X, but I can modify the elisp behavior by (setq readtable-case :preserve), is there something similar ...
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What's the value in using a REPL for ELISP development? [closed]
What's the value in using a REPL? I've always wondered the advantages/disadvantages of using a REPL are (if there are any) as opposed to eval-print-last-sexp and then undoing the text printed (or ...
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Syntax Highlighting of Common Lisp User-Defined Macros in Emacs
I would like to start writing a few simple Domain Specific Languages in Common Lisp and would like the names of macros I define to be highlighted as if they were Common Lisp functions or macros in ...
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Company-yasnippet doesn't see yasnippet template in lisp
Config: (use-package yasnippet :ensure t :hook (prog-mode . yas-minor-mode) ) (use-package yasnippet-snippets :ensure t :after yas) (use-package common-lisp-snippets :ensure t :after ...