Hi Jason,

On 10/18/06, Jason Thompson jat@northwestern.edu wrote:

Having used Peter Seibel's LispBox, I finally decided to consolidate my programming environment and use Slime under my primary Emacs. I'm using Clisp 2.41 on a Windows XP machine and followed instructions on Bill Clementson's blog for the setup. However, when I attempt to start Slime with M-x slime, I get the error: Spawning child process: invalid argument. Is the problem obvious to anyone?

if i try M-x slime-connect RET RET RET, the connection is refused.

.emacs is as follows: (add-to-list 'load-path "C:/jat/site/slime") (require 'slime) (add-hook 'lisp-mode-hook (lambda () (slime-mode t))) (add-hook 'inferior-lisp-mode-hook (lambda () (inferior-slime-mode t))) ;; Optionally, specify the lisp program you are using. Default is "lisp" (setq inferior-lisp-program "clisp")

.slime.lisp is just: (load "C:/jat/site/slime/swank-loader.lisp") (swank::create-swank-server 4005)

Both SLIME and CLISP have changed a bit since I originally wrote those instructions. First of all, you can get rid of the .slime.lisp file (that was a work-around at the time I wrote the blog entries). Second, you can probably get by with just the following:

(add-to-list 'load-path "C:/jat/site/slime") (setq inferior-lisp-program "C:/path/to/clisp.exe -I") (require 'slime) (slime-setup)

I don't use Windows much anymore (and never for lisp these days), so I can't confirm that this will work, but it should.

Good luck!

-- Bill Clementson