I'm trying to get started with SBCL (for macOS). I've installed SBCL, but now I'm trying to get Emacs (for macOS) and SLIME working. However, I must be missing something in the docs because when I try this:
M-x package-install RET slime RET
I get "[No match]".
I'm following the instructions for SLIME and MELPA. I installed Emacs for macOS 24.5-1 because I'm not sure Emacs 25 has package.el built in.
So what else am I missing?
You may have to make Emacs download the package list first by running M-x list-packages. After that, M-x package-install should work.
(Also, Emacs 25 does have package.el built in.)
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In emacs I have got the tuareg mode enabled in the top and the shell in the bottom without color syntax. How can I have color syntax in the shell?
In order to get here, I installed camllight using this script http://judicael.courant.free.fr/2015/02/20/installationcaml.html
then, I installed melpa
M-x list-packages
to search and to install tuareg. And finally, I edited .emacs with (add to list 'load-path "home/pi/.emacs.d/lisp") where lisp is a directory which contain tuareg.el, camldebug.el, tuareg-site-file-el
emacs window:
The mode that you're looking for is not the one that comes with Tuareg. The guy in the video is using the inferior-ocaml mode that is a part of an old caml-mode that used to be distributed with the OCaml compiler. Unless you really want the exact setup as in the video, I would suggest you use a more modern Tuareg mode together with the OCaml Merlin. Otherwise, you should remove Tuareg and install caml-mode using M-x package-install <RET> caml-mode <RET> (see also the documentation on the Github page of the project for more details).
I have emacs 24.5.1 on windows with slime installed. I am using sbcl for lisp. When I open up slime, it works, but whenever I try to use comma to invoke a command, it just enters a comma. I can't get to the slime command menu. Is there any other way to get to the command menu besides comma?
Found the solution.
When going to the slime git website, they said you should include this in your initialization file
(setq slime-contribs '(slime-fancy))
It works after adding that to init.el (equivalent of .emacs)
So I've installed ELPA, and did the command M-x package-install RET auctex.
I was prompted with the message that 133 files were compiled and one was skipped.
But I cannot find auctex mode anywhere when trying to initialize it with M-x auctex-mode.
Am I missing something?
AUCTeX is a package that includes multiple TeX and LaTeX modes, but does not define an explicit AUCTeX mode. To invoke a mode explicitly, use M-x TeX-<TAB> or M-x LaTeX-<TAB> to see the possibilities.
Assuming that the package is installed correctly, these tab-completions should resolve.
Various of the modes may be started automatically upon opening files with certain extensions, perhaps like myfile.tex or similar.
I can run emacs and start slime (with M-x slime). At this point I get the REPL in the inferior-lisp buffer and can run lisp there. But when I open up lisp code in another buffer none of the slime-goodness works (C-x C-e, C-c C-k etc.) and I keep seeing this in the Messages buffer (with an increasing count-number):
slime-connection: Not connected.
Polling
"/var/folders/B9/B9B5J15dH+aNt5J5gkROEk+++TI/-Tmp-/slime.3202".. (Abort with `M-x
slime-abort-connection'.) [69 times]
Makes me think slime is not connecting to the correct lisp interpreter, but since I am very new to emacs and lisp I am stuck here. My setup is:
Mac OSX Snow Leopard
GNU Emacs 23.2
emacs-starter-kit
very few customizations: arnab.el and the files under arnab/
The following is what I did to get Common Lisp and Clojure to work in the same Emacs installation, along with the excellent emacs-starter-kit. This won't let you use both at the same time (you have to restart Emacs to switch from CL to Clojure or vice versa)
I believe that the version of SLIME in ELPA is old, but works for Clojure. Newer version of SLIME won't work for Clojure. Additionally, this version of SLIME seems to be stripped down (no swank-loader.el?) and won't work with Common Lisp.
These are the steps I did to get this to work, it's just what worked for me. All of the bits are under active development, so I think breakage in this area is pretty likely.
With a fresh Emacs (no configuration at all, so move anything .emacs somewhere else for the moment) install ELPA:
http://tromey.com/elpa/install.html
From within Emacs, install the packages "slime" and "slime-repl". (M-x package-list-packages then C-s slime then i to select and x to install)
Move the files in ~/.emacs.d/elpa/slime-20100404 and ~/.emacs.d/elpa/slime-repl-20100404 to a new directory like ~/hacking/lisp/elpa-slime.
Throw out the ELPA install: $ rm -rf .emacs.d.
Now clone the emacs-starter-kit and move it to .emacs.d. I only did this with a fresh copy from technomancy's Github, so try that first if you have problems.
Get the latest SLIME with CVS:
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous:anonymous#common-lisp.net:/project/slime/cvsroot co cvs-slime
I don't think OS X comes with CVS installed, so you'll need to install it from Macports, Homebrew or something.
I put cvs-slime in ~/hacking/lisp.
Hopefully it's obvious what the Emacs Lisp below does:
(defun slime-common-lisp ()
(interactive)
(setq inferior-lisp-program "/usr/local/bin/sbcl") ; your Common Lisp impl
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/hacking/lisp/cvs-slime/") ; your SLIME from CVS directory
(require 'slime)
(slime-setup '(slime-repl))
(slime))
(defun slime-clojure ()
(interactive)
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/hacking/lisp/elpa-slime")
(require 'slime)
(slime-setup '(slime-repl))
(slime-connect "localhost" 4005))
For Clojure you'd have to start the Clojure runtime and swank-clojure on port 4005, I think using Leiningen is the approved method:
Create a new project:
$ lein new project
$ cd project
In project.clj:
(defproject newclj "1.0.0-SNAPSHOT"
:description "FIXME: write"
:dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.2.0"]
[org.clojure/clojure-contrib "1.2.0"]]
:dev-dependencies [[swank-clojure "1.2.1"]])
Then:
$ lein deps
$ lein swank
Edited to add:
If you find that Paredit in the SLIME REPL is broken while using this setup, check this out:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ParEdit#toc3
At least one other potential issue with this is that, AFAICT, if you open a Common Lisp source file and then start SLIME, you won't be able to send forms from the first buffer to the SLIME buffer. So open a SLIME buffer before opening any Common Lisp source files, and it should work. This doesn't seem to apply to Clojure.
References:
emacs setup for both clojure and common lisp with slime-fancy (slime-autodoc)
https://github.com/technomancy/swank-clojure/issues/closed#issue/31/comment/544166
If u have correctly install slime in your system then better use sbcl and add the following line in your ~/.emacs
(setq inferior-lisp-program "/usr/bin/sbcl")
/usr/bin/sbcl can be different according to your sbcl installation path.
I have Aquamacs running on my Mac.
I installed the ESK for Aquamacs and it installs ELPA at ~/.emacs.d/elpa. With ELPA, I installed clojure-mode/clojure-est-mode/slime/slime-repl/swank-clojure.
The thing is that when I run 'M-x slime', clojure is run. Why is this? I'm curious as I don't have any setup for slime in my .emacs and even in /Users/smcho/Library/Preferences/Aquamacs Emacs/{Preferences.el, customizations.el}. I mean, I don't have (setq inferior-lisp-program "clojure") or something.
Or, does it have to do with my 'swank-clojure' installation? I see something like this at the inferior-lisp buffer.
(require 'swank.swank)
(swank.swank/ignore-protocol-version nil)
...
#ServerSocket ServerSocket[addr=0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0,port=0,localport=51847]
That's because of swank-clojure.el, a deprecated elisp program. Don't use it, as per my post here, on your next question. It may have bugs and thus isn't suitable to use. Use M-x slime-connect instead, after starting swank up with lein swank.
As Isaac said, swank-clojure.el sets 'slime-lisp-implementations' for clojure (in short, a way to start java with swank-clojure in classpath so that swank can be started). Then slime connects to this port and you get the repl.
The problem with this approach is that, you will need to setup classpath upfront. This gets tedious for each and every project you want to work on. So, best way is to use M-x swank-clojure-project or lein swank and then M-x slime-connect. I prefer swank-clojure-project.