Re: Learning LISP from scratch

There are also some other environments / editors with
support for Lisp, through plugins etc., like vi, Eclipse, and so on. You
have to google for them, though, unless someone else but me can comment
on those. (I can't.)

For reading LISP code vim is just as good as emacs. Color coding
functions and showing matched parenthesis keep things straight and
neat. For the longest time I did all of my Python coding in vim and
stayed away from emacs. When going towards LISP *everywhere* I read
they recommended just learning emacs while programming LISP. The slime/
emacs IDE seems like a good choice, at least for me, and nothing like
it was for vim. I only had to "learn" a few new commands. Plus I used
the cocoa emacs for MacOSX and I know they have a similar gtk version
and windows version. So if you don't know the commands you can click
for them.

Just my 2 cents.

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