Slime Notes

Get Slime

The current best way to set up a Slime environment is via Quicklisp , unless a bleeding edge snapshot is needed:

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous:anonymous@common-lisp.net:/project/slime/cvsroot co slime

Or download the CVS snapshot as a tarball , but note that it ends up in slime/slime unless you use some fancy tar chops.

These are just a few:

Binding	Command	Notes
,h	help	List of all slime shortcuts
	pwd	Show current directory
,d	change-directory	Change current directory
,cl	compile-and-load	Compile (if necessary) and load a lisp file
,!	defparameter	Define a new global, special, variable
	delete-system-fasls
	load-system
	open-system	Open all files in an ASDF system
,-d	popd	Restore the last saved directory
,+d	pushd	Save current directory and set to new one
	quit	Quit current Lisp
	reload-system	Recompile and load an ASDF system

ASDF exports several very useful functions: ( details )

Binding	Command	Notes
M-Tab C-c C-i C-M-i	slime-complete-symbol	Tries to complete symbol from point
C-c M-i	slime-fuzzy-complete-symbol	enters fuzzy completion mode
C-c C-s	slime-complete-form	Provides the rest of a form template from point.
C-]	slime-close-all-parens-in-sexp	Closes all open parens in sexp from point

Note: you may have to run e16keyedit to turn off some of the bindings enlightenment captures first.

Binding	Command	Notes
C-c M-q	reindent defun	At point
C-M-q	indent sexp	Cursor has to be on the beginning paren of sexp

Binding	Command	Notes
C-c C-q	close parens	(obsolete) Closes parens at point
C-c C-]	close all parens	Closes all parens in current sexp

Binding	Command	Notes
C-w		(while in Isearch) completes search word from point
C-M-a	slime-beginning-of-defun	Moves point to beginning of (or previous) defun
C-M-e	slime-end-of-defun	Moves point to end of (or next) defun
C-_	undo	Same as C-x C-u only easier
M-y	yank-pop	Open yank kill-ring
C-y M-y		..M-y repeatedly yanks in buffer ???
C-t	transpose-chars	transpose two letters
M-t	transpose-words	transpose two words
C-M-t	transpose-sexps	transpose two sexps
C-k	paredit-kill	kill to end of line
M-d	paredit-forward-kill-word	kill to end of word
C-M-j	indent-new-comment-line	newline with indent
C-u M-;		delete comments only
C-M-k	kill-sexp	kill sexp forward
C-M-Back		kill sexp backwards

In one xterm start an ssh session:

ssh -L4007:127.0.0.1:4005 $inervo

But don't use it directly. In another local xterm start emacs and remote connect using:

M-x slime-connect RET 4007

This maps the local port 4007 to the remote port 4005. Now from a local emacs, launch slime with

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