I am helping on the Aquamacs-emacs list, mostly pointing out glitches in the docs etc. I have started learning emacs to learn Lisp thanks to Peter Seibel's book and I would like to have Slime installed by default in Aquamacs.
After mentionning that on the Aquamacs list, the developper, David Reitter, replied the following:
On 21 Apr 2006, at 02:57, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
A stable version of slime 2.0 has just been released, I know it is always possible to include that later oneself, but since it is pretty much the only available Lisp IDE on OSX, I was wondering if special attention could not be given to it ? Like include it by default ?
(I am just realizing that typing the above paragraph in Aquamacs added line breaks, must be that longline is not activated in Mail mode ?)
Lisp is really one of the first reason why I got interested in Emacs, because it looked like an easy to learn language. Now that Peter Seible's book is out (and is a hit), there seems to be a renewal of interest among "beginners".
Yes, we can do that. Someone needs to develop a little compile-file, which will build Slime from Source (as far as that's necessary) and install it where it belongs (a site-lisp/edit-modes/SLIME directory. Then, code to auto-load it needs to be added to the aquamacs-mode- defaults file.
Can you do that? (I don't know Slime very well.)
If you send me these things, I would add it to CVS.
I would like SLIME to be a part of Aquamacs, too.
I have no idea what that involves. Would a person here be nice enough to provide David with what he needs ?
Thank you in advance, and thank you for what you are doing with Slime !
Regards, Jean-Christophe Helary