SLIME is currently available only from CVS. It works with GNU Emacs version 20+ and XEmacs 21, and with CMUCL 18e+, recent SBCLs, OpenMCL 0.14, and recent LispWorks. The fundamental features work with all Lisp backends, though for overall featurefulness CMUCL > SBCL > OpenMCL ~= LispWorks at present.
A very nice draft of a manual for SLIME is available as a PDF file or gzipped PostScript file, courtesy of Luke Gorrie.
The commands to paste are:
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@common-lisp.net:/project/slime/cvsroot login # Password is "anonymous" cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@common-lisp.net:/project/slime/cvsroot checkout slime
The current CVS sources are usually reasonably stable. During times of heavy hacking, the tag FAIRLY-STABLE is set to a reasonably up-to-date working copy. If you hit troubles, you may want to fall back to this version for a while.
To get the FAIRLY-STABLE version, type:
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@common-lisp.net:/project/slime/cvsroot checkout -r FAIRLY-STABLE slime
Installing SLIME just means putting it into your Emacs load-path and enabling it when you enter lisp-mode. Once the Emacs code is loaded, the Common Lisp code is compiled and loaded automatically and on-demand.
Here is the Elisp code. You can paste this into your ~/.emacs after changing the path on the first line to suit your installation.
(add-to-list 'load-path "/the/path/to/slime") (require 'slime) (add-hook 'lisp-mode-hook (lambda () (slime-mode t))) (add-hook 'inferior-lisp-mode-hook (lambda () (inferior-slime-mode t))) ;; Optionally, specify the lisp program you are using. Default is "lisp" (setq inferior-lisp-program "yourlisp")
The easiest way to start is M-x slime. This starts a Lisp process in *inferior-lisp* and has it compile and start the SLIME server ("Swank"). Emacs then automatically connects to Lisp with a TCP socket. If you give a prefix argument (C-u M-x slime) then SLIME will prompt for the command to start Lisp (otherwise it uses inferior-lisp-program).
Alternatively, it is possible to start Lisp however you like and then later start the server manually. First load swank-loader.lisp, which will automatically load the other files (and recompile them if necessary). Then you can start the server on (for example) port 4005 like this:
(swank:create-swank-server 4005)
If you need the swank server to stay running then use this command instead:
(swank:create-server :port 4005 :dont-close t)
The server will listen for one connection from Emacs. To make that connection, use M-x slime-connect.
Note: Although it is possible to connect to a Lisp on a remote machine, we haven't yet figured out what does and doesn't work without a shared filesystem.
Note: If you don't get *slime-repl* buffer and only *inferior-lisp* buffer after starting slime, probably you should check if localhost is set correctly. Also see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.slime.devel/8129
One you're up and running, you can start exploring the SLIME Features.
On Debian Linux you can install SLIME through apt-get install slime. Note that you will still have to apt-get install an emacs of your choice to make it work. On Gentoo GNU/Linux you can install SLIME via the command emerge slime-cvs. This will install a SLIME integrated nicely with the rest of the Emacs and Common Lisp infrastructure.
SLIME & OpenMCL & OS X by David Steuber.
SLIME & Allegro & Windows by Bill Clementson.
SLIME with 3 Windows CL Implementations by Bill Clementson.
SLIME with LispWorks Personal on Windows by Bill Clementson.
Reconnecting to a running Lisp with SLIME by Bill Clementson.
Reconnecting to a Lisp running in a remote FreeBSD jail with SLIME via ssh by Ng Pheng Siong.
Some undocumented SLIME features by Bill Clementson.
SLIME & SBCL & Windows Vista.
Installing CLISP, Emacs, and SLIME on Windows XP by Peter Christensen
Installing SBCL, Emacs, and SLIME on Windows XP by Peter Christensen
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