Hello,

First of all I would like to say I am totally new to Lisp and SLIME. I installed (official debian unstable packages) slime, cl-swank, cl-asdf, sbcl and clisp. I followed the manual for installing SLIME, so in my ~/.emacs I added:

(setq inferior-lisp-program "/usr/share/emacs21")
(require 'slime)
(slime-setup)

When I edit a .lisp file I enter slime-mode, however, I cannot do anything with it, every time I type a command I get a "Not Connected" message.

Could anyone tell me what I am doing wrong (or not doing at all)? I have googled and asked on IRC.

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Thanks for your help.