[slime-devel] Is slime-repl now needed for remote slime?

[Helmut Eller]

* Sidney Markowitz [2009-01-15 04:19+0100] writes:

> Now that slime-repl is in contrib, is it true that
>  (setup-slime '(slime-repl))
> is necessary to use a remote Lisp process? I see that starting up a
> lisp, having it load the right stuff and run swank:create-server, and
> then using M-x slime-connect works if slime-repl is loaded, but I don't
> see any repl if it is not.

Well, it's not strictly needed.  It just means that you don't have a REPL
(and no buffer to see *standard-output*).  The other commands, like
symbol completion, C-c C-c etc. work as before.

> Or is there another recommended way now to use a remote lisp that does
> not depend on any contrib modules?

If you want a REPL, you have to load it.

Helmut.