Category Archives: Emacs

SLIME

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SLIME, the Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs, is an Emacs mode for developing Common Lisp applications. SLIME originates in an Emacs mode called SLIM written by Eric Marsden. It is developed as an open-source public domain software project by Luke Gorrie and Helmut Eller. Over 100 Lisp developers have contributed code to SLIME since the project was started in 2003. SLIME uses a backend called Swank that is loaded into Common Lisp.

— Wikipedia on SLIME

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C-x o

Window-Move to other

C-x C-e

Evaluate last expression

C-c C-r

Evaluate region

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2018.10.19 Friday (c) ACHK

Emacs, 2

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Nice to see Emacs getting a bit of press recently. I’ve used it for almost 20 years now and it dominates my time at the keyboard. It isn’t perfect and I’m reluctant to recommend it but I wouldn’t want to be without it. Let me explain.

The best thing about Emacs is that it can do everything (including the things it can’t do yet). The worst thing about Emacs is finding out how it does anything. I wouldn’t call it discoverable. In fact, on several occasions, I’ve learned about Emacs by accident: you press the wrong key combination (easy to do when you’re holding down a couple of keys and stretching for a third) and, look, something interesting happens!

— Accidental Emacs

— 2008-05-06 

— Thomas Guest

2013.03.04 Monday ACHK

Emacs

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If you are a professional writer – i.e., if someone else is getting paid to worry about how your words are formatted and printed – Emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars. It is not just bigger and brighter; it simply makes everything else vanish.

— In the Beginning…

— Neal Stephenson

2013.02.01 Friday ACHK