[slime-devel] Re: lisp restart

[Andras Simon]

Luke Gorrie's other self <luke at bluetail.com> writes in c.l.l:

> marcelin7 at yahoo.com (Nelson Marcelino) writes:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > is there a way to reset lisp without having to exit from SLIME?
>
> The undocumented way that I do it is to kill the *inferior-lisp*
> buffer (i.e. the lisp process) and then do `M-x slime'
> again. Alternatively you could do ,quit in the REPL, but that'll wipe
> out your old REPL history.

I've been meaning to ask about this for some time: why is ,sayoonara so eager
to remove all traces of lisp activity?

Andras