Emacs *inferior-lisp* process not starting

[Markus Arike <markus.arike@gmail.com>]

Hi everyone,

I'm running Emacs 23.2 (cocoa version) on OSX which had worked 
flawlessly.  It is now broken.  I previously had Emacs, Slime, and 
OpenMCL or SBCL set-up perfectly for the past few weeks and have been 
loving life, studying Lisp code daily. Last night, in trying to install 
Quack for Scheme, I may have changed some of the Emacs Preferences 
regarding Lisp, Inferior Lisp (?).

Now the *inferior-lisp* process is not starting when I start emacs, nor 
can I start it by typing M-x run-lisp.  Typing 'M-x run-lisp' returns 
the error message:

"Can't exec program: /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/env"

And where Emacs lists the open buffers, reads *inferior-lisp*   
[(Inferior Lisp:no process)].  Yikes.

All the Emacs versions on my Mac return the same error message, 
including GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (mac-apple-darwin) Terminal version.  It 
returns the same message but obviously with a different path:

"Can't exec program: /usr/libexec/emacs/22.1/mac-apple-darwin/env"

I think that *inferior-lisp* opened at startup previously and now, 
because of my silly tinkering, it does not.  Does anybody know how if 
this can be corrected?

I reinstalled Emacs, and it is the same story.  I must have made some 
global change that is effecting all my installed Emacs.  I started with 
a no .emacs file, and it is still broken.  Can anyone kindly offer me 
any advice on how I can restore my Emacs to it's pristine 
configuration?  Thanks so much.


Markus Arike
Troubled Emacs user.