The basic SLIME recipe in the toplevel README goes: (add-to-list 'load-path "~/hacking/lisp/slime/") (setq inferior-lisp-program "/opt/sbcl/bin/sbcl") (require 'slime) (slime-setup) but this will trip up anybody who tries to use the contrib modules via installing functions in SLIME-LOAD-HOOK, as it will never get called when M-x slime is invoked, at least on Emacs 22. Using this (add-to-list 'load-path "~/hacking/lisp/slime/") (setq inferior-lisp-program "/opt/sbcl/bin/sbcl") (autoload 'slime-setup "slime.el") (slime-setup) seems to actually get SLIME-LOAD-HOOK called. Maybe the quick setup instructions should be changed? -- <Mark.Evenson@gmx.at> "[T]his is not a disentanglement from, but a progressive knotting into."