Greetings:
I wanted to fool around with slime to learn lisp. I am caught in a dilemma like which came first the chicken or the egg. Right now the contents of slime.el is unfathonable to me because I am not familiar with the list syntacs. It looks like I am unable to launch swank because a path spec may be in error. I am sorry to bother you with this request but I am hoping someone will take pity on me and give me a little advise. Thanks
BACKGROUND
When I enter "M-x slime" in emacs, the following message appears:
apply: Specified program for new process is a directory
Emacs:
GNU Emacs 21.3.50.2 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.0.0) of 2003-11-14 on marx.local
Snippit from .emacs
(setq inferior-lisp-program
"/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/share/emacs/21.3.50/lisp") (add-to-list 'load-path "/Users/robo2/Lisp/slime") (require 'slime) (add-hook 'lisp-mode-hook (lambda () (slime-mode t))) (add-hook 'inferior-lisp-mode-hook (lambda () (inferior-slime-mode t)))
OpenMCL:
Welcome to OpenMCL Version (Beta: Darwin) 0.14.1-p1!
Command "openmcl" launches interpreter.
Slime:
robo2:~/lisp/slime/CVS robo2$ less Entries
/ChangeLog/1.343/Wed Apr 21 22:58:34 2004// /HACKING/1.5/Mon Mar 29 00:59:38 2004// /README/1.9/Tue Nov 25 00:22:36 2003// /hyperspec.el/1.2/Thu Dec 4 16:42:53 2003// /metering.lisp/1.1/Wed Feb 18 07:25:38 2004// /nregex.lisp/1.1/Wed Apr 21 18:55:24 2004// /slime.el/1.271/Wed Apr 21 22:59:04 2004// /swank-allegro.lisp/1.29/Wed Apr 7 16:35:20 2004// /swank-backend.lisp/1.43/Wed Apr 14 18:50:36 2004// /swank-clisp.lisp/1.29/Tue Apr 6 10:42:53 2004// /swank-cmucl.lisp/1.97/Wed Apr 21 19:46:40 2004// /swank-gray.lisp/1.5/Tue Mar 9 19:35:36 2004// /swank-lispworks.lisp/1.38/Sat Mar 27 21:17:36 2004// /swank-loader.lisp/1.21/Wed Apr 21 18:56:42 2004// /swank-openmcl.lisp/1.72/Tue Apr 6 10:42:53 2004// /swank-sbcl.lisp/1.83/Tue Apr 6 10:42:53 2004// /swank-source-path-parser.lisp/1.5/Mon Mar 29 17:49:38 2004// /swank.asd/1.2/Thu Jan 22 00:10:39 2004// /swank.lisp/1.170/Wed Apr 21 21:51:23 2004// /test-all.sh/1.1/Tue Mar 9 20:12:43 2004// /test.sh/1.6/Sat Jan 31 11:50:25 2004// /xref.lisp/1.1/Fri Jan 2 08:17:15 2004//
System:
Mac OS X v 10.3.3 -- Dual 2 GHz PowerPC G5