Panagiotis Papasotiriou wrote:
> It still doesn't work... I can run sbcl with M-x slime, but it complains
> that 'package "ASDF" not found', although cl-asdf is installed. After that,
> if I try to compile a function with C-c C-c, I get an annoying message
> "Polling /tmp/slime.xxxx", which stays there forever. I can load a lisp file
> from repl though.
>
> I have to say it is the first time I see an Emacs mode not working as
> expected, or at least not working out-of-the-box. Furthermore, the idea of
> using a client-server model implemented in slime/swank seems strange to me.
> All that just to compile lisp programs from within Emacs?
>
Panagiotis, i suspect your sbcl on Debian is buggy, since this is the second
time you have apparently impossible to understand problems with your setup.
I can confirm you that emacs and slime work for me with cmucl and sbcl on
Ubuntu 10.04 (64 bits), FreeBSD (i386) and Mac OS X (here with aquamacs).
Slime is particularly interesting, not only to execute lisp code on the fly
under emacs, but also to disentangle error reports, not mentioning correct
formatting and colorization of code ...