Hi Stas, thanks for your reply below - the behiour seems od. If I use (slime-setup '(slime-fancy)) no repl is loaded. Likewise if i use (slime-setup '(slime-repl)) However, if I (require 'slime-repl) and manually call the repl, it appears. I then run into the other issue of communication with the lisp process. I guess one question might be is ntemacs supported? Should i just use the canonical gnu emacs for windows? btw, my slime setup comes from my linux box and works perfectly David Hodge Global Business Integration Team IBM Software Group, ph: +65-6418-4096 hp: +65-97357239 email: hodged@sg.ibm.com From: Stas Boukarev <stassats@gmail.com> To: David Hodge/Singapore/IBM@IBMSG Cc: slime-devel@common-lisp.net Date: 11/05/2011 08:56 PM Subject: Re: [slime-devel] Installing Slime on Windows XP David Hodge <hodged@sg.ibm.com> writes:

Dear all,

i am trying to install slime (the latest cvs version) on Windows XP. The

beahviour below occurs with either clisp or sbcl.

The first issue is that when I start slime, lisp always appears in the *inferior lisp* buffer. I can use slime-selector to open a repl.

The second, more serious issue, is that when i do anything in the repl ,

the connection closes and i get a message

error in process filter: slime-dispatch-event: Elisp destructure-case failed: (:write-string "2 " :repl-result)

This was the result of entering (+ 1 1) in the repl.

So, any advice as to where I should start looking fr the issue?

Do you have slime-repl contrib enabled? One way to do it is (slime-setup '(slime-repl)), but a better way would be to use (slime-setup '(slime-fancy)), which enables some useful contribs, including slime-repl. -- With best regards, Stas.