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title: Editors
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# Emacs

[Emacs][emacs] is a general-purpose editor and the most widely-used environment
for Common Lisp development.

## SLIME

[SLIME][slime] is the most widely-used Common Lisp IDE.

[Portacle](https://shinmera.github.io/portacle/) is a portable and
multiplatform development environment. It includes Emacs with Slime,
SBCL, Quicklisp and Git.

## Sly

[Sly][sly] is a fork of SLIME.

## Paredit

# Sublime Text

[emacs]: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
[slime]: https://common-lisp.net/project/slime/
[sly]: https://github.com/joaotavora/sly

# Vim

## Slimv

[SLIMV](https://github.com/kovisoft/slimv) is a full-blown environment
for Common Lisp inside of Vim.

## Vlime

[Vlime](https://github.com/l04m33/vlime) is a Common Lisp dev
environment for Vim (and Neovim), similar to SLIME for Emacs and SLIMV
for Vim.

# Eclipse

## Dandelion

[Dandelion](https://github.com/Ragnaroek/dandelion) is an Eclipse
plugin for Common Lisp. It is available for Windows, Mac and Linux,
has built-in support for SBCL and CLISP, an interactive debugger, and
more.


# Atom

## SLIMA

[SLIMA](https://atom.io/packages/slima) is a SLIME plugin to
interactively write Common Lisp with Atom, helping turn Atom into a
full-featured Lisp IDE.

# Lem

[Lem](https://github.com/cxxxr/lem) is a ready-to-use Common Lisp
editor with an ncurses and Electron interface.

# cl-repl

[cl-repl](https://github.com/koji-kojiro/cl-repl) is an ipython-like
REPL for Common Lisp.