In a previous email I provided code to make Clozure open the editor in emacs when user evaluates #'ed in a remote repl. In a similar fashion, the following can be added to swank-openmcl.lisp to make it provide a resident inspector when evaluating #'inspect in a remote repl: (push '(inspector::*default-inspector-ui-creation-function* . swank:inspect-in-emacs) swank:*default-worker-thread-bindings*) -- Terje Norderhaug