LISP Editor Program

[Lee Mac]

Just a quick question, and this may sound a little stupid, but, what is the general program to use for typing up LISP programs?

 

I would normally just use bog-standard Windows Notepad, but are there better programs that anyone would recommend?

[lpseifert]

Visual lisp editor, it comes with autocad... type Vlide at the command prompt

for a tutorial on it's use see here

http://afralisp.net/vl/vl-edit.htm

[Lee Mac]

Excellent, lpseifert.

 

I'll have a read. (good old Afralisp )

[qwrtz]

Notepad++ is a freeware that's good for editing LSP files. It uses different colors & fonts to distinguish functions, arguments, and comments, and it keeps track of parentheses for you. Also keeps multiple files open at once, with tabs to select them.

[ASMI]

> qwrtz

 

Notepad++ is useful tool but you can't to debug your programs with it.

 

> Lee Mac

 

I was surprised with those that you do not can to find some simple bugs. Now I know the reason. Study to use Visual LISP Еditor and many problems will disappear. I want will repeat, read Chapter 4 Debugging code with Visual LISP in this Book: http://www.midpointcad.com/au/docs/lakose_The_Visual_LISP_Developers_Bible.pdf . Afralisp article from lpseifert is also good stuff.

[Lee Mac]

Excellent, thanks for all your help guys.

 

I have started to try using Visual LISP Editor, and it will take some time to get used to, but it seems a hell of a lot better than Notepad

 

And yes ASMI - now you know why I sometimes post LISP programs with such simple mistakes in them - hopefully this will now stop the embarassment...

 

Thanks

[CAB]

I use Vlide & Ultraedit. Ultraedit is a better editor but Vlide is by far the best tool to format & debug lisp.