[slime-devel] Installing Slime on Windows XP

[Stas Boukarev]

David Hodge <hodged at sg.ibm.com> writes:

> Dear all,
>
> i am trying to install slime (the latest cvs version) on Windows XP. The 
> beahviour below occurs with either clisp or sbcl.
>
> The first issue is that when I start slime, lisp always appears in the 
> *inferior lisp* buffer. I can use slime-selector to open a repl.
>
> The second, more serious issue, is that when i do anything in the repl , 
> the connection closes and i get a message
>
> error in process filter: slime-dispatch-event: Elisp destructure-case 
> failed: (:write-string "2
> " :repl-result)
>
> This was the result of entering (+ 1 1) in the repl.
>
> So, any advice as to  where I should start looking fr the issue?
>
Do you have slime-repl contrib enabled? One way to do it is (slime-setup
'(slime-repl)), but a better way would be to use (slime-setup
'(slime-fancy)), which enables some useful contribs, including
slime-repl.

-- 
With best regards, Stas.