I have tried updating to the lastes slime from CVS and it will apparently not start, at least not as I am used to.
The symptom is that I see the inferior lisp buffer in which lisp is starting up, then I get the "Connected" message, but no REPL buffer appears.
This I have tested with both SBCL 1.0.39 and CCL (of some slightly older version), all on a fairly recent emacs 23. I have seen this both on Linux and OSX (though todays attempt was made only on OSX).
There is no change in behaviour if I rename my .emacs and .sbclrc and follow the startup description of SLIMEs README so it does not appear connected to my current configuration or how I usually set up slime.
------------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Christian Lynbech | christian #@ defun #. dk ------------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - petonic@hal.com (Michael A. Petonic)