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8:17:53
MichaelRaskin
oni-on-ion — I don't think so, in the Nix project we definitely know about Guix and would probably have known about a Nix-similar package manager in Common Lisp
8:20:56
MichaelRaskin
(And given that I manage my Nix-built system with a Common Lisp daemon and talk about that, I guess someone would have asked me if I want to switch…)
16:53:25
cl-n00b777
so,,,lemme get this right...when im in the sbcl repl buffer...standard elisp functions are not in scope?
16:54:59
makomo
SLIME is the Emacs package that implements the client-side of the protocol that's used to communicate with a lisp process
16:55:04
cl-n00b777
(load "~/quicklisp/clhs-use-local.el" t) returned an undef value when I tried to call from CL-USER repl
16:55:19
makomo
the server side is called Swank (also comes as a part of the SLIME package), and is loaded into your lisp process when it's started by SLIME
16:56:24
makomo
so SLIME can support multiple implementations (as long as the backend, Swank, works on that implementation)
16:57:02
makomo
cl-n00b777: that's because the file is an elisp file, so you most likely can't load it into a Common Lisp implementation (the *scratch* buffer uses elisp by default)
16:57:35
makomo
cl-n00b777: hah, nope. :D do you say that because of the name? i picked this name literally at random. is it the name of a character?
17:00:24
makomo
cl-n00b777: oh i see. yeah, nothing to do with ff7. i've never played it, but i love the soundtrack :)
17:00:44
cl-n00b777
makomo: not really, my instructor suggested we all do that as a side quest- that lisp will make us better hackers
17:01:54
cl-n00b777
what i love about lisp and emacs is how simple the syntax is...not much of one...just lists
17:02:46
cl-n00b777
all the escape metacharacter crap...so much can go afoul and then there posix compliance...etc
17:05:22
oni-on-ion
cl-n00b777, i think that is electric parens. i use rainbow-delimiters-mode as well because i like my operator symbols to be colored
17:06:04
oni-on-ion
see "animated paredit" web page. with s-exp generally we like to work a bit higher than the character level of arrow keys and backspace and typing