What is it?

This is Emacs' master branch, with Common Lisp packages added (and some stuff removed, which I was too lazy to support).

I am using this on a daily basis on MacOS with an init file that I can also use with an unchanged master. I make no efforts to find or fix bugs in stuff that I don't use personally.

My init file uses use-package and straight, and I am using packages like vertico, consult, corfu, magit, org, so I'd say it's quite backwards compatible.

Who's that?

C-h i d m emacs RET s gerd RET

What's not there/not supported

• Documentation
• Tests
• Support for pure space
• Support for symbol shortcuts

What's there

You can use packages much like in Common Lisp. For details, read lisp/emacs-lisp/pkg.el and src/pkg.c, and maybe admin/cl-packages.org, although I haven't kept that up-to-date for some time, I guess.

What's the plan?

None. I don't think CL packages will land in Emacs in my lifetime. I'd say the resistance against anything CL is simply too high among current Emacs maintainers, especially rms.

So, why do this? Because I can. Some people like to tinker with their init files, others go a step further...