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

[Mark H. David]

Oh, sorry, should have written something different. See below...

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Subject: Re: [slime-devel] slime repl AND slime-fancy vs. XEmacs
From: Stas Boukarev <stassats at gmail.com>
To: Mark H. David <mhd at yv.org>
Cc: slime-devel at common-lisp.net
Date: Sat Nov 14 2009 18:38:14 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
> "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))
>
>   
Right, sorry about that, I meant

(require 'slime)
(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.
>
>   
OK, but what's the deal with the documentation?  Also, why would anyone 
just do (slime-setup) if
it doesn't even cause M-x slime to start a REPL?  Is it "slime" if 
you're just using the *inferior-lisp*??
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