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• My I3-Emacs Integration

  Sounds like you want Lem. Though it's common lisp instead of guile. https://github.com/lem-project/lem. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• Editing Code in Emacs

  Thanks for sharing. I've been off editor hopping for quite some time, nowadays I just use some pre-defined configuration like Doom Emacs, occasionally I try to build some environment, with AI help, from "scratch" for fun and curiosity. I really like Emacs' flexibility + evil-mode and reactivity, recently I searched for something similar and found Lem: https://github.com/lem-project/lem, looks promising, I'll try... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs

  I don't agree with everything in their approach, but Lem (https://github.com/lem-project/lem) is a modern editor that has the Emacs Nature. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs

  It's not exactly what you're looking for but you might be interested in Lem[0]. It's an emacs-style editor but written completely in Common Lisp on top of curses/SDL2. I haven't used it that much (same for Emacs itself, really), but it looks like a very solid foundation [0]: https://github.com/lem-project/lem. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• How I am deeply integrating Emacs

  Emacs took a wrong fork in its own metaphor. At length, being able to take code and libraries between production and the editor would be a game changer. While Elisp has design features that make sense, in the tradeoffs, I think it lost to every other lisp with a general purpose programming ecosystem. I have a hope for the Common Lisp based Lem. All we need is to coordinate enough signal for potential users to... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

  When I get fed up with VSCode, I run Emacs and I feel happy until I start working on something else that can be done a little faster on VSCode because of the available extensions. I feel like we almost need government intervention to keep GitHub an open commons, but I am a Libertarian and I distrust the government perhaps even more than the tech industry - still an open question for me. Lock in and control by huge... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• I Chose Common Lisp

  >Looks like vim-slime is essential to how you work with CL slime has some issues and I am not convinced lisp and vim are a good pair. Lem is getting pretty good and improving by the day, find it much better to work with than vim when it comes to lisp and vim is my primary editor. https://github.com/lem-project/lem. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• EmacsConf 2024 Notes

  Wondering if the Lem project is “accepted” (or worth a test drive) by the Emacs community. I’m a long time Emacs user, occasionally leaving but always returning. Lately, Lem has my attention. https://github.com/lem-project/lem For those not familiar, Lem is very approximately an Emacs, natively written and extendable in Common Lisp, multiplatform, NCurses & SDL2, etc. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Neomacs: Structural Lisp IDE/browser/computing environment

  I know one guy who uses emacs and when I heard of lem (https://github.com/lem-project/lem) I told him. (Lem is also in CL) He was quite enthusiastic of it, but 2 or 3 things were missing at the time, the first of all you guessed it, it's org-mode, second was magit but he could use lem without it and finally it was a plugin manager (but we agreed it is a lot of... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Emacs-ng: A project to integrate Deno and WebRender into Emacs

  There's also Lem, which has a good vim mode and is scriptable in Common Lisp (since it's built in CL) :D https://github.com/lem-project/lem/ It has: LSP support, a treeview, project-related commands, a directory mode, a POC git mode… with ncurses and SDL2 UIs. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Setting up a fundraiser for multi-threaded Emacs, any thoughts on this?

  Indeed, at this point it's just better to contribute to Lem. Source: over 3 years ago

• Lem text editor

  Its working in glibc, you just need to install void-repo-multilib, roswell or quicklisp inside sbcl, and ncurses-devel, then follow the install instructions here. Source: over 3 years ago

• I didn't know that there exists an Emacs clone written in Scheme. It is called "Edwin" and part of MIT/GNU Scheme.

  Lem is sort of a "spiritual clone", not a 1:1 clone of Emacs, written in CL. Source: over 3 years ago

• Emacs-like editors written in Common Lisp

  Lem uses its LSP mode. https://github.com/lem-project/lem/ (don't know much more, maybe it is that one (same author) https://github.com/cxxxr/cl-lsp). - Source: Hacker News / almost 4 years ago

• Emacs-like editors written in Common Lisp

  It is missing the Lem editor, that works for CL out of the box but also for more languages (Python, Rust, HTML… and a directory mode). https://github.com/lem-project/lem/ It works on the terminal and in an experimental Electron front-end. More are in the works. It lacks docstrings and documentation, but its gitter chat is somewhat active and different people showed interest in helping. It is an easy to install CL... - Source: Hacker News / almost 4 years ago

• What features should a Lisp IDE have?

  Perhaps you can find some ideas if you check out the Lem project https://github.com/lem-project/lem. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Convince Me to Use Emacs or Not To. VS Code User.

  If you're interested, there's a promising project called Lem. It's an Emacs-like that uses Common Lisp that's already very performant (and it's multithreaded) and is a lot simpler since it doesn't have Emacs' history yet. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Slynk independent client

  I didn't know about CEDAR! I thought there are only these Emacs replicas in Common Lisp: Hemlock and Lem. Source: about 4 years ago

• Emacs for Professionals

  Well there's a working Emacs-like in Common Lisp! https://github.com/lem-project/lem/. - Source: Hacker News / about 4 years ago

• Have always fantasized about writing an Emacs-like editor. What would be a good language (apart from LISP)?

  Yeah, there is not reason not to use lisp and a million reasons to use it. https://github.com/lem-project/lem. Source: almost 5 years ago

• Second Climacs – Emacs Implementation in Common Lisp

  That's very cool and I'm waiting for it but the usable Common Lisp based editors are Lem and LispWorks: https://github.com/lem-project/lem/ supports CL, Python, C, Rust, CSS, Go, HTML, Java, JS, Nim, OCaml… (see the modes/ directory), it has a directory mode (à la dired) and it seems to support LSP (I only tried it for CL so far). It is very much Emacs inspired, but is lacking documentation and self-documentation... - Source: Hacker News / about 5 years ago