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Products that do what Emacs4CL: 35 line .emacs to turn Emacs into Common Lisp dev environment does

1. 1CC
   C/C++ Development Environment for Emacs▲146

   2014 · tuhdo.github.io

2. 2EA
   Emacs Anywhere▲248

   2018 · github.com

3. 3LW
   Lisp with copying GC in 537 lines of C (plus Lisp 1.5 on top)▲152

   2018 · github.com

4. 4AN
   A notebook-style Common Lisp environment▲180

   2017 · github.com

5. 5FS
   Full Stack Lisp – A book in progress about writing Common Lisp apps▲338

   2016 · fullstacklisp.com

6. 6FF
   FUSE filesystems in Emacs Lisp▲46

   2017 · github.com

7. 7LS
   Lisp Shell▲120

   2018 · github.com

8. 8LI
   Lisp implementation in modern Java, Go, C#, TypeScript, Python▲128

   2021 · github.com

9. 9EC
   Emacs Configuration Generator▲278

   2022 · emacs.amodernist.com

10. 10KO
    Kind of reinventing Emacs and Elisp – looking for feedback▲10

    2018 · github.com

11. 11IW
    I wrote a technical history book on Lisp▲252

    The book page links to a blog post that explains how I got about it (and has a link to sample content), but the TL&DR is that I could not find a lot of books that were on "our" history _and_ were larded with technical details. So I set about writing one, and some five years later I'm happy to share the result. I think it's one of the few "computer history" books that has tons of code, but correct me if I'm wrong (I wrote this both to tell a story and to learn :-)). My favorite languages are Smalltalk and Lisp, but as an Emacs user, I've been using the latter for much longer and for my…

    Feb 2026 · berksoft.ca

12. 12CU
    Compiler using Lisp’s macro system for metaprogramming C-like languages▲80

    2018 · github.com

13. 13FC
    Farolero – Common Lisp style-conditions and restarts for Clojure▲150

    2021 · github.com

14. 14NL
    New Lisp data structure▲62

    2010 · github.com

15. 15UC
    Using Common Lisp from Inside the Browser▲111

    2025 · turtleware.eu

16. 16DL
    Draw L-Systems with Common Lisp▲72

    2020 · github.com

17. 17ET
    Emacs Theme Creator▲91

    2015 · github.com

18. 18CC
    Clamp – Common Lisp with Arc Macros and Procedures▲41

    2014 · github.com

19. 19AE
    An Elisp tutorial made to run inside Emacs (constructed by Claude Code)▲5

    2025 · github.com

20. 20ID
    I designed a language for code golf, compiling to Common Lisp▲102

    2013 · rhoscript.com

21. 21ML
    Minimal Lisp in ~70 lines of Haskell▲76

    2011 · gist.github.com

22. 22IC
    Interactive Common Lisp: An Enhanced REPL▲101

    I created this because sometimes I want more than rlwrap but less than emacs. icl aims to hit that middle sweet spot. It's a terminal application with context-aware auto-complete, an interactive object inspector, auto-indentation, syntax colouring, persistent history, and much more. It uses sly to communicate with the child lisp process and aims to be compatible with any sly-supporting implementation. I hope others find it useful!

    Dec 2025 · github.com

23. 23EO
    Emacs org mode integration with IPython▲92

    2015 · github.com

24. 24AC
    A Custom Lisp in C▲15

    2021 · github.com

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