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There seems to be a strong bias toward using Emacs, probably because Emacs itself uses a Lisp. There's no reason other (programmable) editors couldn't talk to S

by Zak 16y ago

There seems to be a strong bias toward using Emacs, probably because Emacs itself uses a Lisp. There's no reason other (programmable) editors couldn't talk to Swank (the Lisp-side of Slime) though, and I'm not sure why people writing things like Eclipse plugins haven't taken that approach.

tritchey 16y ago
My understanding is that the Eclipse plugin CUSP does use slime to talk to the SBCL instance.
- Zak 16y ago
  Yes, evidently it does. Seems strange that it would be tied to a specific version of SBCL then, or is that the user not knowing how to start Swank elsewhere and connect Cusp to it?
  - amouat 16y ago
    CUSP ships with SBCL, not sure how hard it is to play with the Swank stuff.