> We're hardly ever typing function definitions into it so I rather think of it as your workbench.
This is because Common #Lisp is designed around text editing files in file store rather than structure editing actual Lisp structures in memory -- to the extent that it's pretty hard to retrofit a structure editor into Common Lisp.
I feel, having grown up in the days of structure editors, that this is an enormous own goal.
@oantolin You can still try the structure editor of the Medley Interlisp environment, SEdit. It eventually replaced DEdit and supports Interlisp and Common Lisp.
The Medley Interlisp Project a retrofuturistic software system What did we leave behind on the path to developing today's computer systems? Could there be lessons for the future of computing hidden in the past? Enter the Medley software environment to explore these questions.
@amoroso It's not a structure editor, it's a text editor, surely?
I mean, it's getting on for forty years since I used it, but I thought it was a huge step backwards.
@simon_brooke I apprached SEdit as a new user and loved the experience:
https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/medley-interlisp-structure-editing-first-impressions
https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/paoloamoroso/demonstrating-interlisp-structure-editing
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