Hi, Happy New Year. I have two questions about slime. First, I am trying to connect allegrocl and slime. My environment is Windows XP and XEmacs 21.5.23. My init file contains the following code: (global-set-key [(f7)] '(lambda () (interactive) (shell-command "alisp.exe +B +cm -L ~/.slime.lisp&") (while (not (ignore-errors (progn (slime-connect "localhost" 4005) t))) (sit-for 0.2)) (delete-other-windows) (slime-connect "localhost" 4005))) Initially I was just using the Bill Clementson's code, but I was getting "program actively refused connection error" so I tried adding (while (not .....)) mentioned at http://common-lisp.net/pipermail/slime-devel/2005-February/003088.html But now I get an error message "(error "Keyword argument 2932 not one of (:pid :style :lisp-implementation :machine :features :package)")" What am I doing wrong or missing, and how can I use allegro and slime? Btw, my .slime.lisp file contains (load "C:/Program Files/XEmacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/slime/swank-loader.lisp") (swank::create-swank-server 4005 :spawn #'swank::simple-announce-function t) The contents of *slime-events* buffer are below. The second question is about using multiple lisp connections simultaneously. Based on Helmut's code I added the following to my init file. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.slime.devel/4268 (setq slime-lisp-implementations '((clisp ("clisp.exe -I -m 256mb")) (acl7 ("alisp +B +cm")))) (load-library "inf-lisp") (setq inferior-lisp-program "clisp.exe -I -m 256mb") (add-hook 'inferior-lisp-mode-hook (lambda () (inferior-slime-mode t))) The problem is that when I do M-x slime, it gives me a "Process Error: Searching for Program". But earlier when I didn't have any values assigned to slime-lisp-implementation, things used to work fine. Also, C-u M-x slime, shows me `Run lisp:clisp.exe -I -m 256mb' and then when I press enter clisp starts properly. Thanks for the help. -- Surendra Singhi http://www.public.asu.edu/~sksinghi/index.html ,---- | "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." | -- Orwell, Animal Farm, 1945 `---- Contents of *slime-events* buffer: (:emacs-rex (swank:connection-info) nil t 1) (:emacs-rex (swank:connection-info) nil t 1) (:open-dedicated-output-stream 2122) (:open-dedicated-output-stream 2124) (:indentation-update (("record-strings" . 1) ("record-code-vectors" . 1) ("with-scheduling-allowed" . 0) ("with-host-as-target" . 0) ("with-struct" . 2) ("defimplementation" . 2) ("with-compilation-hooks" . 1) ("with-temp-package" . 1) ("with-reader-error-handler" . 1) ("with-describe-settings" . 1) ("with-bindings" . 1) ("defslimefun" . 2) ("without-interrupts" . 0) ("with-io-redirection" . 1) ("with-connection" . 1) ("with-buffer-syntax" . 1) ("with-sampling" . 1) ("with-profiling" . 1) ("preparing-analysis" . 1) ("preparing-profile-analysis" . 1) ("with-process-lock" . 1) ...)) (:return (:ok (2932 "International Allegro CL Enterprise Edition" "allegro" (:asdf-install :split-sequence :asdf :allegro-cl-enterprise :acl-socket :hiper-socket :profiler :multiprocessing :flavors :little-endian :gsgc :compiler :use-structs-in-compiler :clos :verify-car-cdr :dynload :dlwin :x86 :mswindows :microsoft :microsoft-32 ...) :spawn "7.0 [Windows] (Dec 20, 2005 19:16)" "THAR")) 1) (:indentation-update (("record-strings" . 1) ("record-code-vectors" . 1) ("with-scheduling-allowed" . 0) ("with-host-as-target" . 0) ("with-struct" . 2) ("defimplementation" . 2) ("with-compilation-hooks" . 1) ("with-temp-package" . 1) ("with-reader-error-handler" . 1) ("with-describe-settings" . 1) ("with-bindings" . 1) ("defslimefun" . 2) ("without-interrupts" . 0) ("with-io-redirection" . 1) ("with-connection" . 1) ("with-buffer-syntax" . 1) ("with-sampling" . 1) ("with-profiling" . 1) ("preparing-analysis" . 1) ("preparing-profile-analysis" . 1) ("with-process-lock" . 1) ...)) (:return (:ok (2932 "International Allegro CL Enterprise Edition" "allegro" (:asdf-install :split-sequence :asdf :allegro-cl-enterprise :acl-socket :hiper-socket :profiler :multiprocessing :flavors :little-endian :gsgc :compiler :use-structs-in-compiler :clos :verify-car-cdr :dynload :dlwin :x86 :mswindows :microsoft :microsoft-32 ...) :spawn "7.0 [Windows] (Dec 20, 2005 19:16)" "THAR")) 1)