Re: SLIME and SBCL (Common Lisp)

[Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>]

Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

> * Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> [2021-06-27 02:06]:
>> Trying to get SLIME and SBCL Common Lisp up-and-running but my
>> old stuff won't wort. It gets stuck on the count-up
>> connection phase.
>
> Before few years, SLIME worked just fine. I don't know now, somehow it
> breaks connection too often. So I find it easier to disable it and use
> M-x run-lisp -- it seem to be so much more stable work. Connection is
> not easily broken unless I do kill-emacs by mistake. I don't have
> access to all features of SLIME, but hey.
>
> There is certain benefit of programming without helper functions as it
> drives memory and thinking better. And I use CLISP implementation that
> has a readline, so I run separate vterm or terminal where I can
> quickly write any command and get its apropos or quickly jump to the
> documentation of a function. SLIME has those features and when I am
> not using SLIME I switch to CLISP and readline TAB TAB, documentation
> opens for every function.
>
> SBCL does not have a readline.
>
> I also try to minimize libraries and just implement practical
> functionality without dependent software.
>
> Yesterday I was supposed to write a general Double Opt-In program in
> Common Lisp but I wrote it in Emacs Lisp. I guess I will have to
> rewrite it in Common Lisp, then I will do the same in Chicken,
> Dr. Racket, Scheme and Perl, then maybe other languages to add.

Have you tried sly?

https://github.com/joaotavora/sly

"Might" be a better alternative to slime, but I don't know for sure,
don't use slime myself.