[slime-devel] command completion not working

[Helmut Eller]

* David Baumgold [2009-01-08 18:58+0100] writes:

> I am using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on a 64 bit architecture, running 64
> bit SBCL 1.0.23, slime 2009-01-05, and GNU Emacs 24.4.1. I cannot get command

Emacs 23 is the currently under development.  You probably meant Emacs
21.4.

> completion to work in slime. When I hit M-tab, the buffer responds with "No
> tags table loaded; try M-x visit-tags-table".

It seems like slime-mode is not enabled.  Do you see something like
"(Lisp Slime[sbcl])" in the modeline?  Or "(Lisp)" alone?
You can use M-x slime-mode turn it and off.

> The relevant part of .emacs
> file is as follows:
>
> (setq inferior-lisp-program "/usr/local/bin/sbcl")
> (push "/usr/local/slime/" load-path)
> (push "/usr/local/slime/contrib/" load-path)
> (require 'slime)
> (slime-setup '(slime-fancy))

This looks OK.

Helmut.