Oh, sorry, should have written something different. See below...
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [slime-devel] slime repl AND slime-fancy vs. XEmacs From: Stas Boukarev stassats@gmail.com To: Mark H. David mhd@yv.org Cc: slime-devel@common-lisp.net Date: Sat Nov 14 2009 18:38:14 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
"Mark H. David" mhd@yv.org writes:
Hi.
Sorry if this these are old issues already. I just recently became a subscriber to this list.
I've been using SLIME a few years on Linux, and it was fine, and actually set up by others.
Recently, I tried setting it up on Windows by myself. Not so smooth.
I followed the basic documentation, which was basically
(require 'slime) (slime-setup)
But that did not start a REPL, but just the *inferior-lisp* buffer. After a while, I looked around, and I found some "chatter" about having to do
(require 'slime-fancy) (slime-setup).
That almost worked in XEmacs, and did work in GNU Emacs. Is that really what the average user is supposed to do?
No, you it should've been (slime-setup '(slime-fancy))
Right, sorry about that, I meant
(require 'slime) (slime-setup '(slime-fancy))
The main doc on installation pointed to from here:
http://common-lisp.net/project/slime/
which doc is here:
http://common-lisp.net/project/slime/doc/html/Installation.html#Installation
says this is what you should do:
(require 'slime) (slime-setup)I.e., the first thing I tried. So, is the basic doc wrong? What's the deal?
The deal is that it's not loaded by default. Don't ask me why.
OK, but what's the deal with the documentation? Also, why would anyone just do (slime-setup) if it doesn't even cause M-x slime to start a REPL? Is it "slime" if you're just using the *inferior-lisp*??