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Introduction

ILISP is an interface from GNU Emacs to an inferior LISP. It has the following features:

• Runs under emacs-18, fsf emacs-19, and Lucid emacs-19.

• Support for multiple LISP dialects including Lucid, Allegro and CMU on multiple machines even at the same time.

• Dynamically sized pop-up windows that can be buried and scrolled from any window.

• Packages are properly handled including the distinction between exported and internal symbols.

• Synchronous, asynchronous or batch eval and compile of files, regions, definitions and sexps with optional switching and automatic calling.

• Arglist, documentation, describe, inspect and macroexpand.

• Completion of filename components and LISP symbols including partial matches.

• Find source both with and without help from the inferior LISP, including CLOS methods, multiple definitions and multiple files.

• Edit the callers of a function with and without help from the inferior LISP.

• Trace/untrace a function.

• M-q ("Fill-paragraph") works properly on paragraphs in comments, strings and code.

• Find unbalanced parentheses.

• Super brackets.

• Handles editing, entering and indenting full LISP expressions.

• Next, previous, and similar history mechanism compatible with comint.

• Handles LISP errors.

• Result histories are maintained in the inferior LISP.

• Does not create spurious symbols and handles case issues.

• Online manuals for ILISP and Common LISP.

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