There is little reason to use Eclipse or Intellij with Common Lisp. That's a non-starter. Editors like vim can be used with Common Lisp just fine. Most people

There is little reason to use Eclipse or Intellij with Common Lisp. That's a non-starter. Editors like vim can be used with Common Lisp just fine. Most people I know just use Emacs/SLIME because it's reasonably advanced and can be used nicely via GUI or a terminal connection. Personally I use the LispWorks for editing code, mostly. It has a Emacs/Hemlock-like editor written in Common Lisp built-in. I also use the Clozure CL on the Mac, which also has a hemlock-derived editor built-in. Where Clojure naturally has better integration into the Java ecosystem (Java IDEs, too), Common Lisp has the better IDEs written in itself.