{"id":195,"date":"2008-02-14T10:54:34","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T16:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pchristensen.com\/blog\/articles\/public-beta-open-for-ultimate-n00b-slimeemacs-cheat-sheet\/"},"modified":"2014-08-11T09:17:44","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T16:17:44","slug":"public-beta-open-for-ultimate-n00b-slimeemacs-cheat-sheet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pchristensen.com\/blog\/articles\/public-beta-open-for-ultimate-n00b-slimeemacs-cheat-sheet\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Beta Open For &#8220;Ultimate N00b SLIME\/Emacs Cheat Sheet&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this Valentine&#8217;s Day, give the gift people really want &#8211; complex key chords!<\/p>\n<p>In other news, I&#8217;ve got fans!<\/p>\n<p>Well, at least one anyway. A lot of the feedback I&#8217;ve received on this site so far has been from experienced Lispers who appreciate my enthusiasm and contributions for new users. Yesterday, I got the first (I think) comment and reply from another new Lisper who&#8217;s actually getting some use out of my stuff. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronfeng.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Feng<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronfeng.com\/articles\/2008\/02\/14\/slime-video-and-transcript\" target=\"_blank\">wrote up<\/a> my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pchristensen.com\/blog\/articles\/reference-for-the-slimelispemacs-screencast\/\" target=\"_blank\">SLIME movie reference<\/a>, and he even caught my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pchristensen.com\/blog\/articles\/tooting-my-own-horn\/\" target=\"_blank\">later reference<\/a> to my upcoming &#8220;Ultimate N00b SLIME\/Emacs Cheat Sheet&#8221;. Well Aaron, wait no more!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been using it for a week or so, and I&#8217;m sort of pleased with it. First the positives:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It includes all of the SLIME commands from the SLIME manual<\/li>\n<li>It includes all of the Emacs commands from the built in tutorial<\/li>\n<li>It includes the main Emacs help keys<\/li>\n<li>The commands are sorted and grouped by functional area<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s all fits on one page<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are some of the things I&#8217;m not so pleased with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It has very few Emacs commands, relative to what&#8217;s available<\/li>\n<li>It doesn&#8217;t include any advanced text manipulation options<\/li>\n<li>It doesn&#8217;t have the sexp-based manipulation commands. I couldn&#8217;t find standard bindings for these and I&#8217;m not up to Emacs tweaking yet. Adding a key for the slime-selector was enough for me at this point.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s pretty crowded (~100 commands and descriptions on one page)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Emacs section is weak mainly because I haven&#8217;t dived into Emacs the way I have into Lisp\/SLIME. I figure for now I can use it as a standard, powerful IDE for writing, testing, and debugging Lisp, and I can add <a href=\"http:\/\/emacs.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Emacs wizardry<\/a> later. I think I hit the point of diminishing returns where focusing on my tools will help me learn to code in Lisp. Now I need to get my coding up to par with my tools! I need to improve to the point where it&#8217;s worth getting a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/o\/asin\/0596006489\/pchristense03-20\" target=\"_blank\">Learning GNU Emacs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So without further ado, here is my unfinished yet eminently usable cheat sheet:<\/p>\n<p>[NOTE: These links were broken for a while. They work now]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pchristensen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/slimecommands.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Ultimate N00b SLIME\/Emacs Cheat Sheet (pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>or customize your own!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pchristensen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/slimecommands.xls\" target=\"_blank\">Ultimate N00b SLIME\/Emacs Cheat Sheet (xls)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy! As usual, feedback is appreciated. If you&#8217;ve got an Emacs trick that you use a jillion times a day that you think a new user could use, this is a great way to share!<\/p>\n<p>(PS I hope it goes without saying but there isn&#8217;t any kind of beta process. Just that I consider it a work in progress and that it will definitely change in the future, hopefully in response to useful criticism.)<\/p>\n<p>Follow the discussion at: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=115909\" target=\"_blank\">Hacker News<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/reddit.com\/info\/68r3t\/comments\/\" target=\"_blank\">programming.reddit.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/comp.lang.lisp\/browse_thread\/thread\/fbace269004c078d\/b4246320dd49e10f\" target=\"_blank\">comp.lang.lisp<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/comp.emacs\/browse_thread\/thread\/ea4a1df585ef7ac2\" target=\"_blank\">comp.emacs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this Valentine&#8217;s Day, give the gift people really want &#8211; complex key chords! In other news, I&#8217;ve got fans! Well, at least one anyway. 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