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From: .Martin. on 19 Apr 2010 05:57
"Captain Obvious" <udodenko(a)users.sourceforge.net> writes:

> M> I've got a newbie question: What is slime-mode?
>
> slime-mode is a mode for editing Lisp files, it enables SLIME
> keybindings and stuff like that.
>
> M> I mean I normally start slime by M-x slime.
>
> This starts SLIME REPL -- a thing where you type commands. When you
> start it, it starts a new Lisp instance and connects to it, so REPL is
> associated with a running Lisp instance.
>
> Usually, you have SLIME REPL and some Lisp files you edit, and you do
> development interactively -- after you've done editing some function,
> you press C-c C-c while cursor is inside that function, and it will be
> compiled by the Lisp instance. Then you can try this function in REPL.
>
> But you can have SLIME REPL without files to edit, or you can edit
> files without REPL.
> So they are like two independent features of SLIME, but usually they
> are used together.
>
> M> Do I have to do enable it?
>
> No, it is enabled automatically for .lisp files. E.g. if you open
> foo.lisp, it will automatically use lisp-mode and slime-mode, so you
> can use keys like C-c C-c, C-M-x and so on.
>
> M> (slime-setup '(slime-fancy))
>
> This command makes slime-mode loading automatically for lisp files
> (among other things).
>

Thanks guys - It's made things clearer for me.

--
regards

..Martin.
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