Greetings, list! I can't seem to successfully follow the instructions to make SLIME work for me. I tried both the stable release, and the CVS tar ball. I also tried the latest CVS version from home last night (can't access CVS from work), but it did not work either. The following output was produced with CVS snapshot in tar format. I am on Win XP. I have CLISP 2.44 installed. This is my first encounter with SLIME, so please assume minimum knowledge on my part. Thanks! Alex I had to break some lines to fit 80 character length requirement, when posting with gmane. ---------- .emacs begin ---------- (setq-default inferior-R-program-name "C:/Progra~1/R/R-2.6.0/bin/Rterm.exe") (custom-set-variables ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste it! ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance. '(case-fold-search t) '(current-language-environment "Latin-1") '(default-input-method "latin-1-prefix") '(global-font-lock-mode t nil (font-lock))) (custom-set-faces ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste it! ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance. ) (load "D:/Programs/emacs-21.3/ess-5.3.6/lisp/ess-site") ;; Load SLIME for CLISP (add-to-list 'load-path "D:/Programs/slime-2.0") ; your SLIME directory (setq inferior-lisp-program "clisp -K full") ; your Lisp system (require 'slime) (slime-setup) ---------- .emacs end ---------- This is what I get in the *Messages* buffer: ---------- *Messages* begin ---------- (D:\Programs\emacs-21.3\bin\emacs.exe D:\root_macros\.emacs) Loading regexp-opt...done Loading d:/Programs/emacs-21.3/ess-5.3.6/lisp/ess-site (source)... Loading mule-util...done enabling speedbar support Loading d:/Programs/emacs-21.3/ess-5.3.6/lisp/ess-site (source)...done Loading cl-macs...done Loading cl-seq...done Loading easy-mmode...done Loading edmacro...done Loading derived...done Loading byte-opt...done Loading cl-extra...done For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p. Polling "c:/TEMP/slime.22784".. (Abort with `M-x slime-abort-connection'.) [190 times] GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2004-03-10 on NYAUMO Polling "c:/TEMP/slime.22784".. (Abort with `M-x slime-abort-connection'.) [684 times] ---------- *Messages* end ---------- And this is my *inferior-lisp* buffer, after "M-x slime": ---------- *inferior-lisp* begin ---------- (progn (load "d:/Programs/slime-2.0/swank-loader.lisp" :verbose t) (funcall (read-from-string "swank-loader:init")) (funcall (read-from-string "swank:start-server") "c:/TEMP/slime.22784" :coding-system "iso-latin-1-unix")) i i i i i i i ooooo o ooooooo ooooo ooooo I I I I I I I 8 8 8 8 8 o 8 8 I \ `+' / I 8 8 8 8 8 8 \ `-+-' / 8 8 8 ooooo 8oooo `-__|__-' 8 8 8 8 8 | 8 o 8 8 o 8 8 ------+------ ooooo 8oooooo ooo8ooo ooooo 8 Welcome to GNU CLISP 2.44 (2008-02-02) <http://clisp.cons.org/> Copyright (c) Bruno Haible, Michael Stoll 1992, 1993 Copyright (c) Bruno Haible, Marcus Daniels 1994-1997 Copyright (c) Bruno Haible, Pierpaolo Bernardi, Sam Steingold 1998 Copyright (c) Bruno Haible, Sam Steingold 1999-2000 Copyright (c) Sam Steingold, Bruno Haible 2001-2008 Type :h and hit Enter for context help. [1]> ;; Loading file D:\Programs\slime-2.0\swank-loader.lisp ... ;; Loaded file D:\Programs\slime-2.0\swank-loader.lisp ;; Loading file D:\root_macros\.slime\fasl\2008-02-21\clisp-2.44-win32-pc386\ swank-backend.fas ... ;; Loaded file D:\root_macros\.slime\fasl\2008-02-21\clisp-2.44-win32-pc386\ swank-backend.fas ;; Loading file D:\root_macros\.slime\fasl\2008-02-21\clisp-2.44-win32-pc386\ xref.fas ... ;; Loaded file D:\root_macros\.slime\fasl\2008-02-21\clisp-2.44-win32-pc386\ xref.fas ;; Loading file D:\root_macros\.slime\fasl\2008-02-21\clisp-2.44-win32-pc386\ metering.fas ... ;; Loaded file D:\root_macros\.slime\fasl\2008-02-21\clisp-2.44-win32-pc386\ metering.fas ;; Compiling file D:\Programs\slime-2.0\swank-clisp.lisp ... The following functions were used but not defined: SWANK-BACKEND::SLDB-BACKTRACE 0 errors, 0 warnings ;; ;; Error while loading: D:\root_macros\.slime\fasl\2008-02-21\clisp-2.44-win32-pc386\ swank-clisp.fas ;; Condition: INTERN("FRAME-UP-1"): #<PACKAGE SYSTEM> is locked ;; Aborting. ;; [2]> ---------- *inferior-lisp* end ----------