Overview

SLIME is the Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs. It is implemented in two main parts: the Emacs Lisp side (slime.el), and the support library for the Common Lisp (swank.lisp and swank-*.lisp)

For a real description, see the manual in doc/

Quick setup instructions

Add this to your ~/.emacs file and fill in the appropriate filenames:

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/hacking/lisp/slime/")  ; your SLIME directory
(setq inferior-lisp-program "/opt/sbcl/bin/sbcl") ; your Lisp system
(require 'slime)
(slime-setup)

Make sure your inferior-lisp-program is set to a compatible version of Lisp.

The function slime-setup can also load additional, contributed packages ("contribs"). The most-often used package is slime-fancy.el, which primarily installs a popular set of other contributed packages. It includes a better REPL, and many more nice features. To load it, change the bare (slime-setup) form above to (slime-setup '(slime-fancy)).

Use M-x slime to fire up and connect to an inferior Lisp. SLIME will now automatically be available in your Lisp source buffers.

Licence

SLIME is free software. All files, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are public domain.

Contact

Questions and comments are best directed to the mailing list: http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/slime-devel

The mailing list archive is also available on Gmane: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.slime.devel