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1 point by dpara 6312 days ago | link | parent

One of my problems with lisp is that is hard for me to find (fast) what can be done with a specific data type/object.

By typing any (number of) dataype(s) first and then some <unused character> the editor can give better guesses at what I want. And that can be done by allowing the functionname to stand anywhere in the brackets.



1 point by jmatt 6312 days ago | link

You just need to properly set up an IDE. Personally I use emacs and slime. Though there are other options. I have autocomplete that works better than intellisense (visual studio). My experience is intellisense in VS2008 schools eclipse.

It's doable you just have to put in some time to learn emacs / slime or a similar lisp IDE.

http://common-lisp.net/project/slime/

See the screencasts and tutorials section to get up to speed fast(er).

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1 point by eds 6310 days ago | link

Mind letting us in on how to get autocomplete to work with emacs and slime? (Or is there howto for it somewhere?)

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1 point by jmatt 6308 days ago | link

Sure.

Meta-TAB -> slime-complete-symbol

and

C-c M-i -> slime-fuzzy-complete-symbol

It can be found in the manual here:

http://common-lisp.net/project/slime/doc/html/Programming-He...

Also you can access documentation including the common lisp hyperspec:

http://common-lisp.net/project/slime/doc/html/Documentation....

It's an uphill battle to figure it out the first time but it gets easier.

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