On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Lee Spector <lspec...@hampshire.edu> wrote:
> > 8) If you want to become a rock star eternal golden coder's hero then > develop an Emacs-like Clojure coding environment for which the features ARE > discoverable and for which the learning curve is gentle. This sort of thing > has been done before! At least FRED (FRED Resembles Emacs Deliberately), > which was part of the (sadly) long dead Macintosh Common Lisp environment, > counts in my book. And the MCLIDE project continued this work to some > extent for a while, for multiple Lisps including Clojure ( > http://mclide.com). All of that was just for Mac, however, and none of it > appears to be active... but the idea is a superb one: Provide all of the > power of Emacs but ditch the ancient user interface. E.g., instead of > hiding buffers invisibly behind each other, just pop up ordinary windows > that people already know how to use. Use standard menus and dialogs to > interact with the user for opening files, browsing stack traces, and > everything else. Set preferences in a standard preferences dialog. Allow > features to be discovered by browsing menus, and allow key commands to be > viewed/changed in standard ways. Life would be beautiful if something like > this arose in the Clojure community. > MCLIDE is alive and well. Although the most recent public build was released last summer, there are open source on github for those that want to participate in the development: https://github.com/TerjeNorderhaug/mclide -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
