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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

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?

MichalSternik 7y ago
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/#lisp-as-a-system http://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/08/a-road-to-common-lisp/#lis... [2]: http://spacemacs.org http://spacemacs.org
- anoncake 7y ago
  > If you want 100% of SLIME goodness without sacrificing vim, try spacemacs. Or just Evil + Evil-collection. Spacemacs is pretty bloated.
  - MichalSternik 7y ago
    I have not heard before about evil-collection. I have thought about having a custom setup, but my .spacemacs has grown a bit, so it's going to be a major work. I will try it at some point, just to check my elisp-fu Thanks for the tip!
- edanm 7y ago
  I'm in the process of switching after many years of using vim, and it’s been incredible so far. Spacemacs really is like vim, only with way more features out of the box, and way better discoverability, so it's really quick to get up to speed.
panzerklein 7y ago
slimv is pretty good
midgetjones 7y ago
Serious suggestion: http://spacemacs.org/ http://spacemacs.org/ > The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs and Vim!
- mruts 7y ago
  Offtopic, but I’ve been using Emacs for ages and my fingers hurt. Are vi keybindings better. Can I edit things more quickly?
  - vindarel 7y ago
    Yes absolutely. http://wikemacs.org/wiki/Evil http://wikemacs.org/wiki/Evil For a spacemacs experience, see also which-key-mode.
  - midgetjones 7y ago
    I'm not sure I can say, as I learned Vim before Emacs. But you'll definitely have less chance of RSI

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?

MichalSternik 7y ago

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

anoncake 7y ago
> If you want 100% of SLIME goodness without sacrificing vim, try spacemacs. Or just Evil + Evil-collection. Spacemacs is pretty bloated.
- MichalSternik 7y ago
  I have not heard before about evil-collection. I have thought about having a custom setup, but my .spacemacs has grown a bit, so it's going to be a major work. I will try it at some point, just to check my elisp-fu Thanks for the tip!
edanm 7y ago
I'm in the process of switching after many years of using vim, and it’s been incredible so far. Spacemacs really is like vim, only with way more features out of the box, and way better discoverability, so it's really quick to get up to speed.

panzerklein 7y ago

slimv is pretty good

midgetjones 7y ago

Serious suggestion: http://spacemacs.org/ http://spacemacs.org/ > The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs and Vim!

mruts 7y ago
Offtopic, but I’ve been using Emacs for ages and my fingers hurt. Are vi keybindings better. Can I edit things more quickly?
- vindarel 7y ago
  Yes absolutely. http://wikemacs.org/wiki/Evil http://wikemacs.org/wiki/Evil For a spacemacs experience, see also which-key-mode.
- midgetjones 7y ago
  I'm not sure I can say, as I learned Vim before Emacs. But you'll definitely have less chance of RSI