Life & fun · December 30, 2023
Common Lisp Vim Compiler Plug-In
As linked in the readme at the link, I am an ardent vim user and lisp enthusiast. I got tired of hard to read error messages in SBCL with my vim set-up, so I spent a few days cobbling together this `:make` plugin for sbcl Roswell. More about my rationale around why I did it is in the readme. Let me know what you think!
Common Lisp Vim Compiler Plug-In launched on December 30, 2023 with 34 votes, #781 of 3,780 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
In plain words
This Common Lisp Vim compiler plug-in integrates SBCL Roswell with Vim's `:make` command to display compiler error messages in a more readable format. It is designed for Vim users who work with Common Lisp and find SBCL's default error output difficult to parse. The plug-in improves the development experience by reformatting compilation feedback into clearer, more accessible error reports.
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From the sources
WARNING: This repository has been migrated , see the new repo for active development. This repo contains compiler configuration for (n)vim's quickfix list when using Roswell with SBCL or SBCL by itself. The compiler assumes that you either have a *.asd file in the current working directory, or that you have a *.ros file as your entrypoint in the root directory of your repository, as described in my blog post Release Common Lisp on Your First Day . It also assumes you use SBCL with roswell. Afraid not. Vim's errorformat is a beast to get right, and SBCL doesn't exactly have the most machine parsable compiler output I've ever seen. That's actually why I wrote this: the output from compiling…from git.sr.ht
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