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When do you work in emacs vs lem?

So, I've looked at lem. Lem seems to be a really great start and push in the right direction.

I work in LEM for my personal projects, that dont have other LSP integration needs and hooks into my org-mode/org-babel workflow. These should not be show stoppers, but will eventually be a non issue.

There are however some features that I'm missing in LEM before I can fully switch over.

1. The documentation for Lem is lacking. 2. I have lazy hands and hit shift on some keys when I shouldn't (shift and backspace for example). I'd need some way to ignore that. 3. An built in undo, (c-x u equivalent). 4. A documented library interface (this is kinda #1 again)

I will eventually get around to making my own plugins to solve most of these. Its a matter of time vs tradeoff.

I think lem looks really promising, buuuut .., I like org and tramp and slime-connect and structural editing and all the other great emacs things. Maybe I’ll try it out in the next few months or so . . .

Its slime is only local for now. Nrepl is something that I might work on this year.

For anyone following along there is a method to get this to work.

Download micros, put it in your local-projects

git clone https://github.com/lem-project/micros

Load it.and run.

(micros:create-server :port 50000 :dont-close t)

Then use m-x slime-connect in lem.

It is not slime, but it works.

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