# Can Someone Suggest a LISP Editor (not VLISP or Notepad please)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-suggest-a-lisp-editor-not-vlisp-or-notepad-please/953858
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [November 5, 2021, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-suggest-a-lisp-editor-not-vlisp-or-notepad-please/953858 "2021-11-05T21:22:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Ficer67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ficer67)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2021, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-suggest-a-lisp-editor-not-vlisp-or-notepad-please/953858/1 "2021-11-05T21:22:01Z")
I just bought a copy of progeCAD, and I need a lisp editor. VLISP is an AutoCAD product and I don’t want to use it. Until something better comes along, I am using wordpad.
So, can someone suggest a good LISP editor?
Thankyou in advance for all the good replies.
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### Author:  [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2021, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-suggest-a-lisp-editor-not-vlisp-or-notepad-please/953858/2 "2021-11-05T21:25:07Z")
[VS Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/) has [some lisp extensions](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/search?term=lisp&target=VSCode&category=All%20categories&sortBy=Relevance).
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### Author:  [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2021, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-suggest-a-lisp-editor-not-vlisp-or-notepad-please/953858/3 "2021-11-05T21:25:55Z")
I don’t develop with LISP but I’ve found Visual Studio Code has good editor plugins for any language I’ve had cause to edit with it (even pretty obscure ones):
> **[Common Lisp - Visual Studio Marketplace](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ailisp.commonlisp-vscode)**
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> Extension for Visual Studio Code - Common Lisp Editing Extension for vscode
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### Author:  [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2021, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-suggest-a-lisp-editor-not-vlisp-or-notepad-please/953858/4 "2021-11-05T21:44:32Z")
I haven’t programmed in Lisp in decades an only used a text editor (vi, of course…no emacs for you) but Eclipse has a Lisp plugin:
> **[Dandelion](https://ragnaroek.github.io/dandelion/)**
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> Eclipse Common Lisp Editor
Stranger
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### Author:  [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2021, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-suggest-a-lisp-editor-not-vlisp-or-notepad-please/953858/5 "2021-11-06T08:26:59Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#):
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> . . . only used a text editor (vi, of course…no emacs for you) . . .
Philistine! REAL programmers use _ex_. True believers use _ed_.
And the real diehards still use an exacto knife to cut the little rectangular holes in the punch cards.
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### Author:  [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2021, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-suggest-a-lisp-editor-not-vlisp-or-notepad-please/953858/6 "2021-11-06T15:42:50Z")
Xacto knife? You can get a keypunch machine on eBay…
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### Author:  [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2021, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-suggest-a-lisp-editor-not-vlisp-or-notepad-please/953858/7 "2021-11-06T16:10:40Z")
Does this help?
[https://lisp-lang.org/wiki/article/editors](https://lisp-lang.org/wiki/article/editors)
Or this?
> **[Editor support](https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.html)**
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> A collection of examples of using Common Lisp
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### Author:  [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2021, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-suggest-a-lisp-editor-not-vlisp-or-notepad-please/953858/8 "2021-11-09T14:18:36Z")
[https://notepad-plus-plus.org/](https://notepad-plus-plus.org/) has support for LISP
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### Author:  [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2021, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-suggest-a-lisp-editor-not-vlisp-or-notepad-please/953858/9 "2021-11-10T16:13:37Z")
I love Notepad++
Great program. Everyone should have it (it’s free).
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### Author:  [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2021, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-suggest-a-lisp-editor-not-vlisp-or-notepad-please/953858/10 "2021-11-13T15:04:47Z")
I’ll third that sentiment. Notepad++ FTW.