In M-x shell, when you go anywhere in the buffer to edit any string (input by the user, part of the prompt (current directory path, etc), or output by previous commands, as soon as you type return, the current line is copied after the current prompt and executed. Surprizingly, slime does not behave similarly... Instead, it answers an unuseful: ; No value I think it'd be nicer to have a behavior similar to that of shell-mode. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.