@sgharms 
Steven Harms published a blog post series on setting up a distraction free laptop environment based on FreeBSD, with well thought out motivations and detailed steps. I'm glad Medley Interlisp is among the core applications he installed and works well.
The Xerox PARC alumni who contribute to the Medley Interlisp project shared the buttons they collected at computing conferences in the 1980s and 1990s such as AAAI, IJCAI, SIGGRAPH.
The buttons are awesome and span a range of languages and systems such as Interlisp, Lisp Machines, Smalltalk, Unix, Modula-2, Mesa, Pilot, and more. Be sure to go through the whole thread.
https://groups.google.com/g/lispcore/c/ylsMetI3D0I/m/CtGXmMn3AQAJ
What is the main way you access Medley Interlisp?
Enough with structure editors, Emacs, and vi. The One True Lisp Editor is clearly Nano.
The Programmer's Assistant supports undo/redo of Lisp expressions like in this example. The Programmer's Assistant is the Medley Interlisp facility for expression and command replay, undo, and editing.
@interlisp there is also other #Interlisp software described in that paper. Interesting!
SpinPro™ was an expert system to design procedures for Beckman Instruments ultracentrifugation machines at biochemistry labs. Developed in Interlisp-D on Xerox 1108 workstations, SpinPro™ was deployed to IBM PC/XT computers as an application that ran under Golden Common Lisp by Gold Hill.
To learn more about SpinPro™ see this 1985 paper:
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/interlisp-d/newsletters/Masterscope_1-03_Aug85.pdf#page=2
Dare I dream of a GNUstep renaissance or the explosion of #interlisp at hand?
From: @dave
https://social.lightbeamapps.com/@dave/114224995875037861
Are you looking to contribute to the Medley Interelisp Project but don't know where to start? Let Medley pick a random GitHub issue to work on:
← (FILESLOAD PICK)
← PICK ISSUE
The documentation of the PICK tool:
I’ve been working on a #freebsd from scratch blog post series and was going to skip right over Xorg (preferring #wayland and #sway)…and then I heard about #NSCDE - a reimplementation of #Solaris #CDE look-and-feel via #fvwm
Thanks to work by Christian Moerz, it was a snap. Literally `pkg install Xorg nscde` a change to my .xinitrc and I was up in a pastel bliss again. Run #interlisp on it is a beautiful joy.
I was so impressed AND I got to avoid s security holes and bit rot— so I sent some librepay love. It’s a great project!
@interlisp I was thinking I wanted to create some #Medley #interlisp merch! I've been working with a talented vector artist recently on another project.
Are the copyrights such that I could make some?
I'm thinking white front trucker cap, black bill, black mesh in the back, medley logo on the front, centered with a raised fabric border? Sounds gorgeous … and much more interesting than my Debian swirl hat.
← (POP QUIZ)
YOUR.ANSWER
How else is it known in Lisp what the Medley Interlisp environment calls a "sysout"?
Now that I do more Lisp coding projects I needed a place to collect and reference them, so I added a simple list of Lisp project to my personal site.
STORAGE is a Medley Interlisp tool that shows a bar chart of the amount of storage allocated to each Lisp data type. The black part of a bar represents the number of items or pages currently in use, the gray part the number of free items or pages.
Grammar Writer's Workbench is a graphical platform in Interlisp for linguistic and algorithmic research within the Lexical Functional Grammar theoretical framework. In this 1982 videotape its co-creator Ron Kaplan demonstrates using the system to parse and analyze English sentences.
https://archive.org/details/Xerox_Cognitive_Instructional_Systems_Ron_Kaplan_1982-12
The manual of the system:
We are working to make Grammar Writer's Workbench available again on Medley.
@vindarel @borkdude
@Regenaxer
It's worth pointing out that back in 1986, my Xerox 1186 boxes, running #InterLisp, took twenty-one MINUTES to compute factorial 1000.
All of these systems are, in fact, amazingly fast in their bignum performance.
In 1992 the Interlisp team was awarded the ACM Software System Award:
"For their pioneering work in programming environments that integrated source-language debuggers, fully compatible integrated interpreter/compiler, automatic change management, structure-based editing, logging facilities, interactive graphics, and analysis/profiling tools in the Interlisp system."
I hear you like dialogs and property sheets, so here goes. This is the TEdit rich text editor of Medley Interlisp with an open document and the free menus (i.e. dialogs) for controlling text attributes, paragraph formatting, page layout, index and TOC.
