I tend to find LW users are very comfortable with their IDE, however coming from an Emacs World, I struggled a bit.
However once I get all my best parts of Emacs into LW, I will be very happy as it is written completely in CL and together with CAPI and the readily available source code for its Editor, it can do a lot more than Emacs for Lisp Development
You're shipping commercial software with CL so I think you're about as hardcore as it gets :)
> I have modified the LW editor to be more "Mac-like" which I guess makes me less hardcore.
If you mean in terms of keybindings, I did the same when I did a trial recently even though I usually use Emacs for working with lisps. I think it's nice to keybindings that match most text editing programs, and I think the benefits of Emacs-y structural editing are a little overstated (in my opinion). Was just curious to hear how folks using LW do their work.
That said, I find Emacs to be a powerhouse, stable text editor. LW has a decent editor, but it is really hard to get to the same level of Emacs in many of the smaller aspects that you end up taking for granted and don’t want to do without