Comments on: Installing CLISP, Emacs, and SLIME on Windows XP

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:56:46 +0000

I am taking a Junior year programming course at my college and they only use MAC OSs at the school, whereas I’ve been using Windows since I could speak. Having to learn *nix while learning something as jaw-droppingly obscure (compared to C, C++, Java, etc) as LISP seemed like a pipedream to me. Six hours of website digging and I find this beautiful masterpiece. I cannot thank you enough; my grades cannot thank you enough. Now I can actually program in the bloody language without freaking out over how to even get to use it. This is a godsend. A godsend.

By: Vincent

Vincent — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:49:27 +0000

Thanks for the writeup, it really helped.

However, I find that I can’t get this to work with CLISP 2.48, even with the change Ryan mentioned (when I try to start SLIME I get a “process inferior-lisp exited abnormally with code 53″). It does work perfectly with 2.47 though. Strange. Anyone have any idea why?

By: ryan

ryan — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:15:24 +0000

Peter, thanks a lot. This really helped me out.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:21:18 +0000

Peter, thanks a lot for this writeup; it ended a long afternoon of teeth-gnashing. Works great for CLISP 2.48 with one tweak to .emacs: replacing the setq-inferior-lisp-program line with

(setq inferior-lisp-program “[HOME]/bin/clisp/clisp.exe -K full”)

Again, thanks!

By: NT

NT — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:58:35 +0000

Thanks, still useful over a year-on and works like a charm!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:20:29 +0000

Thanks, Peter, a variety of your tips got me going. One thing I have NOT solved though is how to read a utf-8 file and display the actual glyphs; any ideas? I’ve tried the obvious, stuff, like setting all the encoding variables to UTF-8, but the best I can do is /124/9875/2309/etc.

If you want to be where the people are, 1/4 of the world’s population wants to program LISP with Chinese…

I’ll keep looking around myself.

thx again

By: liult

liult — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:21:37 +0000

It is so cool. THANKS A LOT!

By: Carl

Carl — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:31:15 +0000

Whoops! I just thought my installation was correct.

Emacs and slime are new to me but I coded lisp in the dark ages of punched cards and teletypes. After a few days of enjoying lisp I had a simple little program that seemed like a good vehicle for learning slime. At this point I realized I’d been working from the inferior-lisp repl not the slime-repl.

A long evening of googling and guessing led to:

http://www.cliki.net/SLIME-HOWTO and finally
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.slime.devel/8129

The second link offered:

The REPL moved to a contrib. Instead of (slime-setup), place
(slime-setup ‘(slime-fancy slime-asdf)) into your ~/.emacs.

I’m not far enough along to know asdf and apparently don’t have it installed so I ended up using:

(slime-setup ‘(slime-fancy)) which properly started slime.

I don’t understand these “incantations” but perhaps others will find them useful.

Carl

By: Carl

Carl — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:39:06 +0000

Peter,

Just a note to let you know the links are still active and the installation remains relatively painless in March ‘09.

Thanks for these instructions. I continue to enjoy your posts.

Regards

By: q_x

q_x — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:49:47 +0000

Great job thanks
Two things:

You could add some tips howto install eg. asdf (or some other tools) to have your guide more comprehensive.

Bad Mzimu changed all your quotation marks/apostrophes in code examples. This could be my browser (but why?) so putting info about not in the trailing comments, but before first code would be something really good. Esp. the ‘ marks were confusing in my case.

Thanks again.
Cheers,
Luke