Michael Hannemann wrote on Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 01:33:13PM -0600: > > At 10:09 AM 3/7/2003 -0500, Martin Cracauer wrote: > > >The integration of the development environment with the Lisp is a > >different matter. Emacs (non-threaded) with an environment written in > >elisp (doesn't integrated with underlying Lisp) and ilisp (pretty thin > >layer with very few support and integration) is truly a shame when > >comparing the combo to what the Lisp world once had. > > > >Allegro's emacs interface is slightly more polished but underfeatured > >and doesn't play with other implementations. > > Hmm, interesting. What are your favorite interfaces, both past and present?
I started Lisp on Lispworks which is reasonably threaded and has Common Lisp as its editor customization language and generally a pretty nice interface. I don't think I could have gotten around to learn Common Lisp well enough for actual use if I haven't had Lispworks to take care of the interface stuff while I was concentrating on that crazy language :-) And I played with Symbolics just enough to get spoiled, huge mistake. My emacs (ilisp and otherwise) has a Symbolics-like SELECT key, most useful thing on earth but still so limited from emacs/elisp limitations. Martin
