Thanks, Jorge. Your suggestion below solved the problem.

This was sent off the list; I am replying on the list so that everyone knows this case is closed, and with a Happy Ending ;-)

Thanks to everyone. Happy Lisping.

Best,

- Phil -

On 2010-12-29, at 5:00 PM, Jorge Tavares wrote:

Hi Philippe,

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 17:49, Philippe Sismondi psismondi@arqux.com wrote:

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Ubuntu emacs, namely that slime is fired up BUT no *slime-repl* appears. The only buffers that get created are *slime-events* and *inferior-lisp*. Is this a known problem? The emacs version on Ubuntu us gnu emacs 23.1.50.1.

I believe your problem is easy to solve. You need to add to your .emacs something like: (slime-setup '(slime-fancy))

This will activate the repl since it became for quite some a contrib. Check the manual: http://common-lisp.net/project/slime/doc/html/Loading-Contribs.html#Loading-...

However, do you use Quicklisp? If so, install slime from Quicklisp because that way you ensure both machines have the same version and the proper configuration is done for you. To install quicklisp just check here: http://www.quicklisp.org/beta/

For slime from within quicklisp just do: (ql:quickload "quicklisp-slime-helper")

I hope it helps!

Best, Jorge

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