Hello, as you can see from my .emacs setup, I am using cygpath to translate filenames from emacs to lisp and vice versa. However, during M-x slime that variable does not translate swank-loader.lisp as the *Messages* buffer indicates. I am using SLIME 2006. --- inferior lisp transcript --- (load "/home/Administrator/mydocs/dl/slime-2.0/swank-loader.lisp" :verbose t) (swank:start-server "c:\\DOCUME~1\\ADMINI~1\\LOCALS~1\\Temp\\slime.3392 " :external-format :iso-latin-1-unix) This is SBCL 1.0.12, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp. More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>. SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty. It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under BSD-style licenses. See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the distribution for more information. This is experimental prerelease support for the Windows platform: use at your own risk. "Your Kitten of Death awaits!" * debugger invoked on a SB-INT:SIMPLE-FILE-ERROR: "\\home\\Administrator\\mydocs\\dl\\slime-2.0\\swank-loader.lisp" does not exist. Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:QUIT) to exit from SBCL. restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name): 0: [ABORT] Exit debugger, returning to top level. (SB-FASL::INTERNAL-LOAD #P"\\home\\Administrator\\mydocs\\dl\\slime-2.0\\swank-loader.lisp" NIL :ERROR T NIL NIL :DEFAULT) 0] debugger invoked on a SB-INT:SIMPLE-READER-PACKAGE-ERROR: SB-INT:SIMPLE-READER-PACKAGE-ERROR on #<SYNONYM-STREAM :SYMBOL *TERMINAL-IO* {90CC391}>: package "SWANK" not found Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:QUIT) to exit from SBCL. restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name): 0: [ABORT] Exit debugger, returning to top level. (SB-IMPL::READ-TOKEN #<SYNONYM-STREAM :SYMBOL *TERMINAL-IO* {90CC391}> #\s) 0[2] --- .emacs file --- ;;; SLIME (add-to-list 'load-path "~/mydocs/dl/slime-2.0/") (setq inferior-lisp-program "sbcl") (require 'slime) (add-hook 'lisp-mode-hook (lambda () (slime-mode t) (setq lisp-indent-function 'common-lisp-indent-function))) ;(setq slime-backend "/home/Administrator/mydocs/dl/slime-2.0/swank-loader.lisp") (setq slime-filename-translations '((".*" (lambda (emacs-filename) (let ((result (shell-command-to-string (concat "cygpath -w " emacs-filename)))) (progn (message (concat "TO-lisp: " result)) result))) (lambda (lisp-filename) (let ((result (shell-command-to-string (concat "cygpath " lisp-filename)))) (progn (message (concat "FROM-lisp: " result)) result)))))) (defadvice slime-init-command (around fix-slime-init activate) (let* ((filename (ad-get-arg 0)) ;; We can't use slime-to-lisp-filename here, as that uses ;; slime-machine-instance, which needs the connection to ;; already be set up. (filename (funcall (first (slime-find-filename-translators "")) (expand-file-name filename)))) (ad-set-arg 0 filename) ad-do-it)) (slime-setup) --- Messages buffer: note that only a TO-slime message shows up during startup - no FROM-slime. -- TO-lisp: c:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\slime.3392 Polling "/cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/ADMINI~1/LOCALS~1/Temp/slime.3392".. (Abort with `M-x slime-abort-connection'.) [273 times] byte-code: End of buffer