Hi to all,
I need in IDE for Common Lisp, but at home i use linux and emacs + slime for lisp programming, but in my university i must use MS Windows, Emacs under Windows ... pull configuration file and the other I just do not do suits. Please advise a comfortable IDE for Common lisp that would have been a version for Windows and Linux and setup and installation would not cause difficulties.
Thank you.
I like using DrScheme. You can get it from the PLT scheme website here.
There are a bunch of commercial Common Lisp IDEs for Windows.
Corman Common Lisp is only available for Windows and I'm not sure how active the development is nowadays. It is not very expensive.
Then there are Allegro Common Lisp and LispWorks. Both are available on a number of platforms and both their IDEs are available for Windows and Linux. Both have 'no cost' versions with some limitations: Allegro CL Express Edition and LispWorks Personal Edition.
Then there is Ufasoft Common Lisp, which provides an IDE on Windows for CLisp.
Most other free Common Lisp implementations use Emacs + SLIME, on Windows.
I use Emacs+SLIME on Windows (XP) quite happily. I just followed these instructions.
Failing that, try Lispbox.
There's Cusp which is a Common Lisp plugin for Eclipse.
It uses SBCL and the SWANK backend. I've tried it and whilst it was fine I prefer Emacs and SLIME.
When I have to use them on Windows I've cobbled together a version of Emacs, SLIME and SBCL that I can run from a USB pen drive. It also uses the Happycoders .emacs files as I like their configuration.