[slime-devel] Multiple sessions with multiple lisps

[David Steuber]

On Aug 19, 2005, at 10:46 PM, bryan o'connor wrote:

> ;; by registering your implementations, you can choose one by
> ;; its "short name" when doing C-u M-x slime
> (slime-register-lisp-implementation "openmcl" 
> "/Users/david/usr/bin/openmcl")
> (slime-register-lisp-implementation "sbcl" "/Users/david/usr/bin/sbcl")
>
> ;; default
> (setq inferior-lisp-program "openmcl")  ; uses registered name above
>
> ;; start openmcl with its own inferior-lisp buffer
> (defun slime-openmcl ()
>   (interactive)
>   (slime (slime-find-lisp-implementation "openmcl") 
> "*inferior-lisp-openmcl*"))
>
> ;; start sbcl with its own inferior-lisp buffer
> (defun slime-sbcl ()
>   (interactive)
>   (slime (slime-find-lisp-implementation "sbcl") 
> "*inferior-lisp-sbcl*"))

Thanks, Bryan.

I searched through the slime.el file before without finding anything.  
I looked again now that you've offered this solution and see that it is 
down in the ";;;;; Connection listing" section (circa line 7,628) 
without comment.  This would be nice to have documented.