[slime-devel] slime-repl does not appear

[Helmut Eller]

* Jeff Caldwell [2009-01-04 19:02+0100] writes:

> Hello,
>
> I'm have a fresh 32-bit Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) install. I obtained
> both the 2009-01-03 and 2009-01-04 slime tarfile / cvs snapshot. Both
> of them exhibit the same issue. With both SBCL and CMUCL, the slime
> repl does not appear. The inferior lisp window is displayed. The
> 'connected' message, along with its jaunty colloquial appendage, shows
> in the mini-buffer.

The slime-repl is no longer loaded by default.  You can do that
with (slime-setup '(slime-repl)) in your .emacs.

Alternatively you can try the 'inferior-slime contrib which adds symbol
completion and package tracking to the *inferior-lisp*.  Or 'slime-mrepl
which lets you open multple listeners with M-x slime-open-listener.


> Sometimes I would get a swank disconnected (end of
> file) message on a socket, other times it appeared as if there were no
> error-related messages at all.

We haven't figured out yet what is causing this disconnect.  It may well
be an Emacs problem or bug.

> Is the comment in that slime.el that "SLIME is compatible with GNU
> Emacs 20 and 21" still valid, i.e. is slime not compatible with Emacs
> 22? (Even if so, that doesn't explain why the apt version does work
> while the cvs version does not, other than that the change may have
> been intentional.)

Emacs 20 is no longer supported.  Emacs 21, 22, 23 and XEmacs should
work (modulo bugs of course).

Helmut.