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pg mentioned that he uses vi with a REPL ( http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=587 ).

I recently began using emacs + SLIME for writing Lisp and revert back to vim for everything else. I've also tried vim + VIlisp.vim, which sends Lisp code to a running Lisp interpreter. It seemed pretty decent though I don't really have enough experience writing Lisp to really compare.

Anyone else write Lisp in vi?

SLIME is great, but I really miss vim sometimes. Fortunately, Slim-Vim is in the works by the author of VIlisp.vim. Here's a couple comment pages on Lisp with vi/emacs:

http://programming.reddit.com/info/1cij7/comments

http://www.lemonodor.com/mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=689



Anyone else write Lisp in vi?

Yes, I do all of my text editing in Vim. I <3 Vim.


I do use vim, too.

Debugging without slime is quite difficult however: as everything is available through slime, nobody cares about simplifying access to SBCL debugging features from outside slime. For example, having to prefix every variable access with SB-DEBUG:VAR when in the debug REPL is a real pain, and serves no purpose other than annoying non-slime users.




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