If you just want a Lisp environment, go ahead and grab Lispbox, an Emacs bundle pre-configured to work as a LISP IDE. Download the appropriate version from the official site.
If you want to really explore what Lisp is capable of on a regular
basis, get yourself a copy of Emacs. It’s a really great environment
and, if you put in effort, it will help you out a lot over the course
of your career. (Things like AucTeX, Magit, and multiple-cursors
are indispensable tools.)
- Download from the GNU FTP server. (Make sure to download 24.3.)
- Unzip thie file and place it somewhere on your disk.
- If you would like, create a shortcut to
runemacs.exe
.
- Download from emacsformacosx.com.
- Install normally.
Run the following shell script.
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-24.3.tar.gz
tar zxvf emacs-24.3.tar.gz
cd emacs-24.3
make
sudo make install
You’re really going to want to run through the tutorial.
Press C-h t
(control + h
and then t
)
Emacs 24+ comes with an in-house package manager, which makes package
installation a breeze. (Go ahead and check out M-x package-list
if
you don’t believe me.)
Run the following within Emacs.
(progn
(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives
'("melpa" . "http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/") t)
(mapc 'package-install
'(slime magit auctex)))
[to be written]