* Sidney Markowitz [2009-01-15 04:19+0100] writes:
Now that slime-repl is in contrib, is it true that (setup-slime '(slime-repl)) is necessary to use a remote Lisp process? I see that starting up a lisp, having it load the right stuff and run swank:create-server, and then using M-x slime-connect works if slime-repl is loaded, but I don't see any repl if it is not.
Well, it's not strictly needed. It just means that you don't have a REPL (and no buffer to see *standard-output*). The other commands, like symbol completion, C-c C-c etc. work as before.
Or is there another recommended way now to use a remote lisp that does not depend on any contrib modules?
If you want a REPL, you have to load it.
Helmut.