In Emacs M-x slime
will start slime with the default (first) Common Lisp implementation. If there are multiple implementations provided (via variable slime-lisp-implementations
), other implementations can be accessed via M-- M-x slime
, which will offer the choice of available implementations in mini-buffer.
M-x slime
will open REPL buffer which will look as follows:
; SLIME 2016-04-19
CL-USER>
SLIME REPL buffer accepts a few special commands. All of them start with ,
. Once ,
is typed, the list of options will be shown in mini-buffer. They include:
,quit
,restart-inferior-lisp
,pwd
- prints current directory from where Lisp is running,cd
- will change current directory