Using SLIME

Using SLIME

[Xavier Maillard]

Hello,

I am  learning Common Lisp  and have installed  SLIME which seems  to be
very popular in the Emacs community.

The problem  with SLIME is that there  is almost nothing to  read to use
it correctly.

So except  reading the code and/or using  C-h m, is there  a good manual
somewhere to learn how to use SLIME, customize it, ...

Another question, what did happen on their website ? 

Regards,

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Re: Using SLIME

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org> writes:

> Another question, what did happen on their website ? 

Common-lisp.net reportedly had a break-in a few days ago (possibly
through one of the cvs exploits), and has been taken down for
maintenance. 

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(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: Using SLIME

[szymon]

Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org> writes:

> Hello,

[.....]

[ http://www.cliki.net/Slime ].

> Another question, what did happen on their website ? 

"From: nikodemus@random-state.net
Subject: Common-lisp.net attacked
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Date: 25 May 2004 21:15:18 GMT
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, CS lab

IMPORTANT: If you have installed software from Common-lisp.net on or after
21st of May, there is a remote possibility that the sources have been
compromised, and we recommend you take the appropriate steps. More details
below.

Common-lisp.net has been attacked and is temporarily down for maintenance.
We hope to be back in business as usual within a few days, with new
security measures in place.

The attacker gained shell on 21st or 22nd of May (probably through a CVS
vulnerability) and was trying to gain root when detected on the 24th. It
seems that we were also being used to lauch a DOS attack against a third
party. We currently believe that no other damage was done, but are doing a
full reinstall of OS and other software to be on the safe side.

Read-only access to project directories at a temporary location will be
made available for developers at the earliest opportunity so that they can
do their own audits, and hopefully continue development with minimum
interruptions.

With apologies,

 -- Nikodemus Siivola, Common-lisp.net staff"

Re: Using SLIME

[Luke Gorrie]

Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org> writes:

> So except  reading the code and/or using  C-h m, is there  a good manual
> somewhere to learn how to use SLIME, customize it, ...

G'day Xavier,

Yes, we have a manual, I've just put a copy up here:

  http://www.bluetail.com/~luke/misc/lisp/slime.ps.gz
  http://www.bluetail.com/~luke/misc/lisp/slime.pdf

The postscript version is a bit prettier at present.

Usually this lives on our website, but as Lars mentioned it's
currently down while the good common-lisp.net'ers recover from an
unfortunate server crack.

Cheers,
Luke

Re: Using SLIME

[Xavier Maillard]

On 26 May 2004, Luke Gorrie wrote:

> Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org> writes:
> 
> > So  except reading  the code  and/or using  C-h m,  is there  a good
> > manual somewhere to learn how to use SLIME, customize it, ...
> 
> G'day Xavier,
> 
> Yes, we have a manual, I've just put a copy up here:
> 
> http://www.bluetail.com/~luke/misc/lisp/slime.ps.gz
> http://www.bluetail.com/~luke/misc/lisp/slime.pdf
> 
> The postscript version is a bit prettier at present.

Cool thanks a lot !

> Usually this lives on our website, but as Lars mentioned it's
> currently down while the good common-lisp.net'ers recover from an
> unfortunate server crack.

Ok.

-- 
Xavier Maillard
http://www.gnu-rox.org/~zedek/cgi-bin/wiki.pl

Re: Using SLIME

[Xavier Maillard]

On 26 May 2004, szymon wrote:

> Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org> writes:
> 
> > Hello,
> 
> [.....]
> 
> [ http://www.cliki.net/Slime ].

Thanks for the pointer... :p

-- 
Xavier Maillard

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Re: Using SLIME

[Luke Gorrie]

Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org> writes:

> On 26 May 2004, szymon wrote:
>
>> [ http://www.cliki.net/Slime ].
>
> Thanks for the pointer... :p

The Cliki pages about SLIME are really pretty out of date, we've
implemented most of the feature requests listed there nowadays.

The google cache of the homepage might be a more meaningful
accompaniment to the manual:

  http://www.google.se/search?q=cache:sYadxk9Yr30J:common-lisp.net/project/slime/s&hl=sv

I've been meaning to nuke the redundant parts of the Cliki pages, but
I think it's better to wait until the webserver is back up :-)

-Luke