Vlime

MITVim Script

A Common Lisp development environment for Vim and Neovim with REPL integration, debugging, and IDE-like features.

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What is Vlime?

Vlime is a Common Lisp development environment for Vim and Neovim that provides REPL integration, debugging support, code completion, and other IDE-like features. It solves the problem of lacking a robust Lisp development environment in Vim by offering tools similar to Emacs' SLIME.

Target Audience

Common Lisp developers who prefer using Vim or Neovim as their primary editor and want a feature-rich development environment with interactive programming capabilities.

Value Proposition

Developers choose Vlime because it offers a native Vim/Neovim implementation using Vimscript and Lisp, leverages modern Vim channel APIs, and provides a complete alternative to SLIMV with better integration and performance.

Overview

A Common Lisp dev environment for Vim (and Neovim)

Use Cases

Best For

Common Lisp development in Vim/Neovim
Interactive Lisp programming with REPL integration

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Debugging Common Lisp applications from within Vim

Code navigation and cross-referencing in Lisp projects

Learning Common Lisp with Vim as the primary editor

Migrating from Emacs SLIME to a Vim-based workflow

Open Source Alternative To

Vlime is an open-source alternative to the following products:

SLIMV

SLIMV is a Vim plugin that provides a SLIME-like development environment for Lisp (Common Lisp, Clojure, Scheme) within Vim, offering REPL integration, interactive evaluation, and debugging.

SLIME

SLIME (Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs) is an Emacs mode for developing Common Lisp applications, providing an integrated development environment with interactive debugging, compilation, and evaluation.