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What is the general Lisp environment to use on a Mac?

What general Lisp environment are you using? I'm just starting out with the book "Practical General" Lisp by Peter Seibel (he can also read online at http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ ) and the Lisp book in a box ( http://common-lisp.net/project / lispbox / ).

However, it has not been updated since 2011, and the prevalent version of Emacs is quite old (23.2.1). So I updated the Emacs version to 24.3.1 using the distribution provided at http://emacsformacosx.com . It has the best Mac OS X integration.

To upgrade your version of Emacs, follow these steps:

  • Download and install lispbox 0.7
  • Download Emacs for Mac OSX 24.3.1
  • In lispbox-0.7, I'll rename Emacs.app to Emacs.old.app
  • Copy Emacs.app from the Mac OS X Emacs distribution to lispbox-0.7 /
  • Copy Emacs.app.old / MacOSX / lispbox.sh to Emacs.app/MacOSX . Council. If you are using Finder, select "Show Package Contents"
  • Copy Emacs.old.app/Resources/site- lisp / lispbox.el to Emacs.app/Resources/site- lisp 7. Then edit Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/lispbox.sh as shown below.

lispbox.sh

#!/bin/bash
if [ "${0:0:2}" = "./" ]; then
    export LISPBOX_HOME=`pwd`/../../..
else
    export LISPBOX_HOME=`dirname $0`/../../..
fi
export SBCL_HOME=${LISPBOX_HOME}/sbcl-1.0.42/lib/sbcl
#exec ${LISPBOX_HOME}/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs --no-init-file --no-site-file --eval='(progn (load "lispbox") (slime))'
exec ${LISPBOX_HOME}/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs-10.7 --no-site-file --eval='(progn (load "lispbox") (slime))'

Then you can start Emacs with a Lisp environment by running lispbox.sh

Note that I changed the editor and I removed the -no-init-file option to make sure ~ / .emacs is read. To still be able to use Lisp in the Box version of Emacs, you can edit Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/lispbox.sh to use * Emacs.old.app/Contents/MacOS/Emac * s

However, this is how I installed a common Lisp environment on my Mac. I am wondering if there are less cumbersome paths.

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Here's how to set up your environment with Emacs, SBCL, and SLIME from scratch using the latest files currently available.



  • Install Emacs from http://emacsformacosx.com (Emacs version 24.3)

  • Install SBCL 1.1.8 from http://www.sbcl.org/platform-table.html to a directory of your choice (for example ~/sbcl/

    )

    $ tar xjvf sbcl-1.1.8-x86-64-darwin-binary.tar.bz2
$ cd sbcl-1.1.8-x86-64-darwin
$ INSTALL_ROOT=~/sbcl/ sh install.sh

  • Install Quicklisp from http://www.quicklisp.org/beta/ and then install SLIME using Quicklisp

    $ curl -O http://beta.quicklisp.org/quicklisp.lisp
$ SBCL_HOME=~/sbcl/lib/sbcl ~/sbcl/bin/sbcl --load quicklisp.lisp # launch SBCL 
* (quicklisp-quickstart:install) ; complete Quicklisp installation
* (ql:quickload "quicklisp-slime-helper") ; install SLIME
* (ql:add-to-init-file) ; to load Quicklisp every time SBCL is started
* (quit)

  • Create ~/.emacs

    with these lines in it

    (setenv "SBCL_HOME" (expand-file-name "~/sbcl/lib/sbcl"))
(setq inferior-lisp-program "~/sbcl/bin/sbcl")
(load (expand-file-name "~/quicklisp/slime-helper.el"))

  • Start Emacs and invoke SLIME using M-x slime

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