Are there common lisp docs like linux man?

Question

I am new to emacs and regular lisp.

Now I use emacs and slime to find out P.Graham "ANSI Common LISP". However, when I come across something I don’t know, I cannot easily get useful information such as linux man.

Are there common lisp docs like linux man?

Answer 1

Common Lisp HyperSpec describes the ANSI Common Lisp standard and, as such, is more like the POSIX Standard than the Linux manual pages .

Since you are using Emacs, you can use clhs.el to search for specific characters:

 (autoload 'common-lisp-hyperspec "clhs" "Get doc on ANSI CL" t) (define-key help-map "\Cs" 'common-lisp-hyperspec) 

Note. I use Ch Cs to get documentation on characters in the browser, you can obviously choose your own key binding (use Ch Ch to view system bindings).

If you do more than random Lisp coding, you are likely to benefit from using SLIME: an improved Lisp interaction mode for Emacs instead of stock rooms.

(If you use VIM , Google is your friend ).

PS. You should also take a look at the documentation related to the implementation as it documents non-standard functions and extensions.