Awesome

what

• an IDE for Common Lisp
• slimv (Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Vim) and tmux (terminal multiplexer) in a Docker container
• with sbcl and abcl
  • you choose one at container run time with an environment variable (see below)
• also including:
  • quicklisp
  • a copy of the common lisp hyperspec (for offline use)
    • which opens with w3m.vim (a vim plugin for w3m)
  • support for CEPL on a system without hardware acceleration
  • fzf (fuzzy finder)
    • to find files in your current host directory press :FZF
    • to find files in quicklisp packages press :FZF ~
    • then press ctrl-x to bring that selected file into a horizontal split
  • vim-sexp
    • if you want to disable structural editing you can edit .vimrc, comment out Plugin 'guns/vim-sexp', and rebuild the image

why

• setting up slimv the first time took me a few hours and that could be an impediment to someone attempting to use slimv so i wanted to remove the impediment for first time slimv users

how

setup

• you need to have docker installed

  • install_docker

  • you'll probably want to follow the instructions referenced by "Continue to Linux postinstall to allow non-privileged users to run Docker commands and for other optional configuration steps."

• then you have to build this image yourself

  • clone this repo and cd into it

  docker build --build-arg=uid=`id -u` --build-arg=gid=`id -g` -t justin2004/slimv_box .

• then i would create an alias in your .bashrc like this
  • for sbcl

   alias  vv='docker run --user=`id -u`:`id -u` -e CL_IMPLEMENTATION=sbcl --net=host --rm -it -v `pwd`:/mnt justin2004/slimv_box'

• then another
  • for abcl

   alias vva='docker run --user=`id -u`:`id -u` -e CL_IMPLEMENTATION=abcl --net=host --rm -it -v `pwd`:/mnt justin2004/slimv_box'

• then perhaps another
  • if you want to output to X11 (for CEPL)

   alias vvc='docker run -e DISPLAY=$DISPLAY -v ~/.Xauthority:/home/containeruser/.Xauthority -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix --user=`id -u`:`id -u` --rm -it --e CL_IMPLEMENTATION=sbcl --net=host -v `pwd`:/mnt justin2004/slimv_box'

use

• assuming you've built the image already

• cd to the directory where you have some common lisp source files you want to edit

• run "vv"

• now you should be in the container and vim should be running inside tmux

• either create a new file ":e newfile.lisp" or open an existing one ":e oldfile.lisp"

• press ,c to start swank

• you can now follow the tutorial:

• when you are done editing your .lisp files be sure to :w them, press ,Q to quit the sbcl REPL, then :q

NOTES

• if you don't want to wait for the quicklisp downloads each time you start slimv_box then use a docker volume
  • e.g.

   alias vv='docker run --user=`id -u`:`id -u` --rm -it --net=host -v slimv_box_userhome:/home/containeruser -v `pwd`:/mnt justin2004/slimv_box'

• only files in the /mnt directory (in the container) are saved when you leave vim!

• don't run vv from within an existing tmux session or else you'll end up with an embedded tmux session

• you'll need to know how to use:

  • vim
  • tmux
  • common lisp
  • docker (well you just need docker ce installed and your user account needs to be in the docker group)

• TODO maybe i should add gvim and/or xterm support so that the slimv menu is visible and clickable because i bet some users would prefer the GUI-ish approach to slimv