Re: Allegro/LispWorks-like free IDE anytime soon?

Wolfgang Mederle <walthervondervogelweide@xxxxxx> writes:

> Christopher C. Stacy wrote:
>
>> And it had no peripherals, so you couldn't run Emacs
>> off a CD? (Or an entire Lisp environment for that matter?)
>
> The machine is in Oslo, and I was logged in via ssh from Munich. The vi
> (probably vim) was linked against a missing libperl.so. I could have
> tried Emacs/Tramp, though, which I use frequently, but I just had to
> change one line in a config file, and with ed I was done before I would
> have had Tramp initialized. Including reading the man page. :-)
>
>> I noticed that Linux now seems to come with an editor called "nano",
>> which is a little tiny ersatz Emacs; it's intended for editing
>> system files, early in the configuration/bootstrap process.
>>
>> You could put quite a lot of stuff on a USB thumb drive, too.
>
> Now that you mention it, I wonder whether I could fit a CL environment
> on my iPod Shuffle. Ah, the geek factor!

An iPod shuffle would not have enough space... you would
probably have to go for a RAID-5 configuration of shuffles, which,
happily, have even higher geek factor.

--
Raymond Wiker
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