[slime-devel] slime repl AND slime-fancy vs. XEmacs

[Stas Boukarev]

"Mark H. David" <mhd at yv.org> writes:

> Hi. 
>
> Sorry if this these are old issues already.  I just recently became a 
> subscriber to this list.
>
> I've been using SLIME a few years on Linux, and it was fine, and 
> actually set up by others.
>
> Recently, I tried setting it up on Windows by myself.  Not so smooth. 
>
> I followed the basic documentation, which was basically
>
>   (require 'slime)
>   (slime-setup)
>
> But that did not start a REPL, but just the *inferior-lisp* buffer.  
> After a while,
> I looked around, and I found some "chatter" about having to do
>
>  (require 'slime-fancy)
>  (slime-setup). 
>
> That almost worked in XEmacs, and did work in GNU Emacs.  Is that really 
> what
> the average user is supposed to do?
No, you it should've been (slime-setup '(slime-fancy))

> The main doc on installation pointed to from here:
>
>   http://common-lisp.net/project/slime/
>
> which doc is here:
>
>   
> http://common-lisp.net/project/slime/doc/html/Installation.html#Installation
>
> says this is what you should do:
>
>      (require 'slime)
>      (slime-setup)
>
> I.e., the first thing I tried.  So, is the basic doc wrong?  What's the 
> deal?
The deal is that it's not loaded by default. Don't ask me why.

-- 
With best regards, Stas.