[Sbcl-help] SBCL/Emacs on MacOSX

[Pascal J.B. <pj...@in...>]

Nicolas Neuss writes:
> Hello, SBCL users.
> 
> I have access to an institute Laptop (G4 Powerbook) running MacOSX (10.3).
> I have heard from colleagues that Emacs would not work well with this OS,
> etc.  Therefore, to be sure that I do not sink much time here, I wanted to
> ask if someone on this list uses an environment consisting of Emacs
> (XEmacs), SBCL, and ILISP/SLIME on this operating system (if yes, was it
> difficult to set up?).

I've not  checked SBCL on  MacOSX yet (does  it compile to  PPC?), but
emacs and  ilisp work perfectly fine  on emacs. You can  use a vanilla
gnuemacs with X  on MacOSX, or a gnuemacs with Aqua  if you rather not
install X.

For now, I've used openmcl and clisp on MacOSX and both work well.  If
you intend to write GUI  applications, openmcl has a head start, being
able to load  libraries and being able to  use Objective-C objects and
sending them messages.


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