Emacs is used by many lispers but not all of them.The most famous non Emacs lisper is Paul Graham. I don't mind using Emacs and Slime on Linux but for a visual

Emacs is used by many lispers but not all of them.The most famous non Emacs lisper is Paul Graham. I don't mind using Emacs and Slime on Linux but for a visual type of person they suck compared to modern IDE's. I rely a lot on visual clues and speedbar is a poor man alternative. Franz and Lispworks are making good ides and many commercial organizations are buying and using them. The implementations you mentioned are all open source and don't have resources to develop proper IDE since there is no big company to back them up, such as IBM financing eclipse. So they choose proper course of action of improving their implementations with Emacs + SLIME as their programming environment.