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so does doug hoyte, apparantly, which is why the final words of 'let over lambda' are dedicated to using vi instead of emacs to hack on lisps.


Right, but what about normal text editors?


In CL land, we have good support with Atom, Jupyter notebooks, Sublime, VSCode (new plugin, hard-ish to install), and to a lower extent Geany, Eclipse (basic support) and other terminal REPLs. https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.ht... Not to forget Lem, an emacs-like CL editor that works out of the box for CL, but also for other languages (Python, Rust…).


`ed` doesn't really integrate with anything other than stdio.


what's with all these y's in their names! hoyte, dybvig




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