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Are there any good editors for Lisp programming, other than Emacs?

Asked 2008-11-12T03:13:44.447
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I'm looking for an alternative, since I find emacs difficult to use. I'd rather use an editor that supports all the usual shortcuts I'm used to, such as arrow keys to move the cursor around, CTRL+SHIFT+RightArrow to select the next word, etc.

Basically, I don't want to have to relearn all my familiar shortcuts just so I can use emacs.

Can anyone recommend a suitable editor?

Another thing - Notepad++ supports LISP syntax coloring, but it doesn't have an integrated LISP console like emacs does. Would it be fine to just have a Notepad++ window and a Command Line window open, side-by-side, and use the command-line whenever I want to run my program?

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I suspect that nearly anyone that programs LISP will use emacs. You may be putting yourself at a disadvantage if you ever have to work with real LISP programmers.

Additionally, a good programmer should not be tied to any one editor. Learn to deal without Windows-based key acceleration.

answered 2008-11-12T04:09:34.803
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Some commercial Lisp systems (Allegro CL, LispWorks, Corman CL) are coming with their own editors. Typically one can choose between platform specific keybindings and Emacs-like keybindings.

answered 2009-02-25T12:32:51.437

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