Setting up a working Common Lisp environment for the aspiring Lisp newbie

Question

I\'ve been a UNIX sysadmin for a long time, and aside from automating tasks with shell scripting, some light PHP work, and a few simple C programs, I\'ve never done much in the

Answer 1

Don't give up Vi/Vim just because a large percentage of people like Slime.

I've written about this before here on SO. Check these out:

• Using Vim for Lisp development
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/451329/what-is-the-preferred-way-to-run-lisp-web-application/558329#558329
• Best Common Lisp IDE
• Are there any good editors for Lisp programming, other than Emacs?

I'll be happy to answer specific questions here.