Hacking StumpWM with Common Lisp

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18 points·gkya··4 comments

Glad they included quicklisp in this intro, it's always good to get beginners able to install libraries so they can get maximum value quickly.

swank + stumpwm is an awesome way to live. I've recently become a fairly big proponent of gnu guile, I hope the guile-wm project gets some love soon.

I used to use/contribute to Stump - I really liked it at the time. Can't actually remember why I moved away, possibly craved the relative simplicity of i3.

I have today moved from i3 to emacs + stumpwm + swank. The docs are scarce, I'm stranger to common lisp (though I've know my elisp rather well, and also have used some scheme and some clojure), but still the repl is invaluable. I like how much it resembles Emacs, the stumpwm. Also, because it is common lisp based, maybe I'll get to learn some common lisp, which I wanted to do for a while.

Comparing the two, well, I do not really use a window manager for more than switching between emacs, firefox and displaying the battery, dropbox and wifi status, so pretty much any wm would be enough for me. Still, the easy integration with emacs and the repl connection is a good thing to have. Especially compared to e.g. xmonad, which you compile every time.

The trouble is, the repl is only really useful whilst you're extending stump or your configuration. You want to actually control the WM with keybindings, not tapping out lisp into a repl.

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