"Simon Koch" simkoc@postfach.it writes:

I used to install slime by using the Ubuntu package system, but currently those packages are either out of date or broken. Therefore I installed and configured slime and emacs myself using the provided manuals.

But after that the buffer<->repl interaction is still broken.

I am used to an interaction where typing

(FORMAT t "foobar~%")

into a buffer e.g. *scratch* and then using C-M-x on it, would result in the repl printing "foobar". Instead I am getting an error:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function FORMAT)
  (FORMAT t "foobar~%")
  eval-region(291 312 t (lambda (ignore) (goto-char 312) (quote

(FORMAT t "foobar~%")))) ; Reading at buffer position 310 apply(eval-region (291 312 t (lambda (ignore) (goto-char 312) (quote (FORMAT t "foobar~%"))))) eval-defun-2() eval-defun(nil) call-interactively(eval-defun nil nil) recursive-edit()

which confuses me in two ways:

1. there is no output in the REPL as expected
2. given the (doubtful) assumption that the line contained an error: this

is not the error/debug-screen I am used by slime which is supposed to look like the right top window in the picture shown on the homepage of slime.

Another symptom I got is, that c-x c-m which is supposed to expand a given macro-expression works in the *slime-repl sbcl* buffer, but in any other buffer the message "C-c RET is not defined" appears.

This is my current .emacs file:

;;slime-setup (load (expand-file-name "~/quicklisp/slime-helper.el")) (setq inferior-lisp-program "sbcl") (add-to-list 'load-path "/home/simkoc/emacs/slime/") (require 'slime-autoloads) (slime-setup '(slime-fancy slime-asdf))

I'd appreciate any help.

Thank you.

*scratch* is an emacs lisp buffer. You want *slime-scratch* (get it first by M-x slime-scratch).