I've done the vast bulk of my CL work using just vi. Specifically, I was doing the typical "reload the lisp file" life cycle, rather than the interactive "just

I've done the vast bulk of my CL work using just vi. Specifically, I was doing the typical "reload the lisp file" life cycle, rather than the interactive "just redefine this defun" style of development. Even when I used Lispworks, it was "save file, reload it" style of development. I used CLISP because it had GNU readline. (e) to edit my file, (l) to reload it, and off to the races (I wrote those trivial defuns). No packages, no imports, no asdf. Everything in CL-USER. I did switch to emacs for one simple reason: tab to reindent. Other than that it was the most basic of emacs use (load file, save file, ^s to search, cmd-XCV for cut and paste, pgup, pgdn). No Sexpr navigation, no buffer juggling, none of that, no lisp integration whatsoever outside of paren matching and the tab to indent.