[slime-devel] starting with a saved image

[Helmut Eller]

* Tamas K Papp [2009-01-01 16:22+0100] writes:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to start sbcl as an inferior-lisp with slime and load a 
> previously saved image (saved with sb-ext:save-lisp-and-die).  How can I 
> do this?  I just want to do this occasionally, not all the time, and the 
> path of the image is not fixed (I use many images), so I need to be able 
> to enter that interactively.

If your image creates a REPL on stdin, you can start SLIME with
C-u M-x slime  and enter something like  sbcl --core <file>

On startup, SLIME sends some forms to the stdin of the subprocess to
load Swank.  If the subprocess doesn't create a REPL then this approach
will obviously not work.

Helmut.