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SLIME (Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs) provides a development environment for Common Lisp in Emacs. This article assumes that SBCL will be used. It can be replaced with other implementations, e.g. CMUCL, ECL, CLISP.

## Installation

Install emacs-slime and your preferred Common Lisp implementation. Alternatively, SLIME can be installed via quicklisp.

## Configuration

To make use of SLIME, add the following lines to your init file:

    (setq inferior-lisp-program "/path/to/lisp-executable")
    (add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/slime/")
    (require 'slime)
    (slime-setup)

Then run `M-x slime` from within emacs.

Alternatively, for a fancier SLIME setup, you can change the above lines to:

    (setq inferior-lisp-program "/path/to/lisp-executable")
    (add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/slime/")
    (require 'slime)
    (slime-setup '(slime-fancy))

## Resources

- The Common Lisp wiki
- Practical Common Lisp
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
- Paul Graham's Lisp resources.

Category:

- Development