> [Com MN PG P E B Consultant 3]
>
> I find it a bit convenient when working on the lisp shell (i.e. the "*"
> prompt which
> you get when you are just invoking "lisp"), that you don't have a good
> command editing
> or a history facility, as you have in shells such as bash or zsh. I know
> that lisp is
> not intended to be used like a shell, but still this would be useful
> (especially during
> the time where one is learning Lisp).
>
> Does someone know an add-on which provides such a facility?
Yes, Emacs! You run cmucl as an "inferior" process to emacs. There
are several packages that make this process run smoothly. The
currently most popular one is Slime. Obviously you get all the
command-line editing anyone could dream of, but you also have command
histories and a lot of other bells and whistles.
I don't endorse Slime, at least not strongly. I use it, but I'm
strongly considering going back to Ilisp or some other older
interface.
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-- Drew McDermott
Yale University
Computer Science Department
