"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))

  

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.