Evan Lenz

Got Aquamacs, Allegro CL, and SLIME up and running on my iMac at home. I can’t believe I’ve already been using Vim for 5 years now. Emacs is certainly another world. But I am motivated one way or another to learn Lisp, and learning Emacs seems to go hand in hand with that. So far, Viper mode is my friend. But I’ve already gone so far as to swap my Capslock and Control keys, as recommended in “Effective Emacs”.

So far, I’ve worked through chapter 3 of Peter Seibel’s book and am now reading chapter 4. That macros are a way of life in Lisp is exciting. I’ve gotten a glimpse of their power with XSLT, but I’m looking forward to taking it to the next level.