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The Common Lisp Cookbook

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Re: The Common Lisp Cookbook

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Hi!

I'm one of the (less active) maintainers. Four years ago I migrated the CL cookbook from sourceforge where it'd been gently resting for quite a few years (nearly a decade), and put it onto github, put together a CI system, and away it went. A few volunteers have been diligently working away on improving it, particularly `vindarel`, who has really taken the lead for content work in the last couple years as I've been pulled away by other things.

since 2015 we've had 492 commits into git, and these fine people have contributed to the git tree:

      Alexander Artemenko
      Andrew
      Andrew Hill
      Ben Dudson
      Burhanuddin Baharuddin
      chuchana
      Danny YUE
      Dmitry Petrov
      Fernando Borretti
      HiPhish
      Johan Sjölén
      Kevin Layer
      LdBeth
      Momozor
      Nisar Ahmad
      Nisen
      otjura
      Paul Donnelly
      Pavel Kulyov
      Pierre Neidhardt
      Salad Tea
      Victor Anyakin
      vindarel
      Vityok
      YUE Daian

thanks be to the contributors!

I'll be around to answer any Qs for an hour or two, then I'll keep an eye out tomorrow!

Re: The Common Lisp Cookbook

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For a Vim user, what is a good plugin to provide SLIME like paredit and REPL capabilities for programming in Common Lisp? Is there a clear winner plugin in Vim like there is SLIME for Emacs?

Steve Losh in his already-classic CL blog post [^1] suggests either Vlime or Slimv, quote:

„If you’re like me and already have Vim burned too deeply into your fingers to ever get it out, I’d recommend Vim with Vlime. It will give you 80% of the experience you’ll get with Emacs.”

If you want 100% of SLIME goodness without sacrificing vim, try spacemacs [^2]. I switched about two years ago and am very happy.

[1]: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/08/a-road-to-common-lisp/#lis... [2]: http://spacemacs.org

Re: The Common Lisp Cookbook

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For a Vim user, what is a good plugin to provide SLIME like paredit and REPL capabilities for programming in Common Lisp? Is there a clear winner plugin in Vim like there is SLIME for Emacs?

Serious suggestion: http://spacemacs.org/

> The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs and Vim!

Re: The Common Lisp Cookbook

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post #2

Hi! I'm one of the (less active) maintainers. Four years ago I migrated the CL cookbook from sourceforge where it'd been gently resting for quite a few years (nearly a decade), and put it onto github, put together a CI system, and away it went. A few volunteers have been diligently working away on improving it, particularly `vindarel`, who has really taken the lead for content work in the last couple years as I've be…

Congratulations on the efforts.

Is there any way to also get an epub out of it?

Re: The Common Lisp Cookbook

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Another excellent companion with the Cookbook is `Common Lisp Recipes` by Edi Weitz. Edi Weitz is a profilic CL programmer and his libraries are worth their weight in gold.

Anyone learning CL must read his code if I were to say to learn from a master.

[1] http://weitz.de/cl-recipes/ [2] https://github.com/edicl

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