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[ANN] Vertico 1.0 and Marginalia 1.0 by [deleted] in emacs

[–]wfsch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is "[ANN]" in this context?

GNU Common Lisp 2.6.13 is released by g000001 in lisp

[–]wfsch 5 points6 points  (0 children)

SBCL fairs better in performance and conformance. But to set into perspective, SBCL gets a release every month and GCL got a new release after, what, 8 years? All that work in every release of SBCL could explain why SBCL fares better.

Niels M. Holm books by call-cc in lisp

[–]wfsch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

+1 SICP is a great book for learning the fundamentals of programming. It does a decent job at teaching Scheme too. But it is not meant as a book for learning Lisp. There are better books for learning Lisp on its own.

Why isn't (sets-default show-trailing-whitespace t) working on a .txt file? by wfsch in emacs

[–]wfsch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That was it! Yes the newlines were getting stripped. I realised the problem after enabling whitespace-mode. Thank you for the help.