--- C Y wrote:
> Thanks to some excellent help from the #lisp folk (pjb in particular)
> a
> way has been found to have Slime work with a running Maxima image on
> CMUCL. Here are the instructions on how I got it to work
> (improvements
> welcome, particularly alternatives to the absolute load path I've got
> in maxima-init.lisp)
>
> First, put the following in maxima-init-cmucl-slime.lisp
>
> (setf mp::*idle-process* mp::*initial-process*)
> (pushnew "/home/user/maximatoplevel/slime/" asdf:*central-registry*)
> (asdf:oos 'asdf:load-op :swank)
> (mp:make-process #'(lambda () (swank:create-swank-server)))
>
> If your slime directory isn't in /home/user/maximatoplevel/slime/
> replace that with the value of your slime directory.
>
> Next, put the following line in maxima-init.lisp:
>
> #+cmu (load "/home/user/.maxima/maxima-init-cmucl-slime.lisp")
>
> This avoids trying to load unworkable code in other lisps.
>
> Then, start maxima with cmucl. You will see a swank server start up,
> and the load messange will supply a port number:
>
> ;; Swank started at port: 4005.
>
> Now, start emacs and slime. In this case, you will need to start
> emacs
> and then do M-x slime-connect. You will be prompted for a host
> (127.0.0.1 is your own computer) and port (make sure it matches the
> one
> Maxima told you it was using. Once this is done, you should see
> something like the following:
>
> ; SLIME 2005-06-01
> CL-USER>
>
> This means you have succeeded. To get into the MAXIMA package, where
> most of the action will be taking place, you type:
>
> CL-USER> (in-package MAXIMA)
> #
> MAXIMA>
>
> You can now enter regular Maxima expressions via the normal
> interface,
> and interact with Maxima through the SLIME REPL via this emacs
> Window.
>
> I've uploaded a screenshot showing an example - The top frame is a
> normal maxima interaction mode, the middle is a lisp file
> (unit-functions.lisp in this case) and the bottom is the Slime REPL
> window.
>
> http://maxima.sourceforge.net/maxima+slime+cmucl.png
>
>
>
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