shen-elisp

s I wish to develop someday. Additionally, if you ever worked in a certain environment and really dislike that the language is a bit weak, shen might be something you could port to that language and use. For example, I recently updated https://github.com/deech/shen-elisp so that some of its rough edges were a bit smoothed down and should be more usable; I haven't actually written any shen yet that runs in emacs. That's still a ways away.

tasks that comprise: - move/mirror parts of ascii diagrams - automate some tasks just clicking on custom org-mode links - wrap ammonite-term-repl to get Ammonite completion for scala scripts [1] [2] - add rudimentary support for kawa scheme to geiser (my first pull request ever (still waiting for response)) - control video player from within emacs while I'm writing subtitles ---- part 2: you can have different emacs configurations Another common complain is that emacs tends to become slower as you add more and more packages. As a spacemacs user, I noticed that too. For this reason when I don't need spacemacs goodies I use multiple, different emacs configurations (with evil-mode though). This is how I do it: 1 - Make a new ".emacs.d" user directory somewhere 2 - Make a new "init.el" user file inside it 3 - Add to the beginning of init.el : (setq user-init-file (or load-file-name "path-to-init.el")) (setq user-emacs-directory (file-name-directory user-init-file)) 4 - Call emacs with: emacs -Q --load "path-to-init.el" That's it. You could achieve the same result using cask, which would be more elegant imo, but takes a couple of seconds more to start. ---- part 3: use elisp to call other languages As for elisp, once you have learned enough of it (not much), if you are determined not to use it, there are different ways to call other languages from it: - clojure through cider plus clomacs - common lisp through slime - shen through shen-elisp [3] - different compiled languages through dynamic modules: - C (example at [4]) - go (example at [5]) - ... many others I haven't investigated... Just out of curiosity, I explored the shen-elisp path. I tried a whole week to see if I could replace it with shen-elisp. At the end of the week I learnt how to call elisp from shen-elisp and shen-elisp from elisp... and the fact that every time you restart shen-elisp you have to re-declare types. However I abandoned the idea for 2 reasons: - Plain elisp is faster: I don't know the implications - I wanted to focus on elisp so I can contribute better to other elisp projects ---- references [1] https://github.com/zwild/ammonite-term-repl [2] https://github.com/spellcard199/ammonite-term-repl-completion [3] https://github.com/deech/shen-elisp [4] http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2017/07/08/Adding-numerical-methods-to-emac… [5] https://mrosset.github.io/emacs-module/

ain one. Aditya Siram (Deech) has just created an Elisp port, shen-elisp! [2] [1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/qilang/FHUNMvOyu2U [2] https://github.com/deech/shen-elisp