Last week, I shared a 35 line ~/.emacs (as a Show HN post) that turns Emacs into a Common Lisp development environment pretty quickly: https://github.com/susam/

Last week, I shared a 35 line ~/.emacs (as a Show HN post) that turns Emacs into a Common Lisp development environment pretty quickly: https://github.com/susam/emacs4cl https://github.com/susam/emacs4cl . It provides a good middle ground between configuring Emacs manually by installing SLIME, Paredit, etc. yourself with M-x package-install commands and installing Portacle. It promotes a do-it-yourself approach to setting up Emacs for Common Lisp programming quickly while understanding each step of the set up process and each line of ~/.emacs well.