I'm using LispBox on OS X. I was trying to use the SLIME command C-c C-] to close all open parentheses in a given S-expression. But the emacs status tells me that C-c C-] is undefined. When I manually type it in using "M-x slime-close-all-parens-in-sexp", it works. The commands for this are documented here: Slime docs
I searched and found that SLIME doesn't load contrib modules by default, and that I need to add some config to my ~/.emacs file. The config needed is
(setq inferior-lisp-program "/opt/sbcl/bin/sbcl") ; your Lisp system
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/hacking/lisp/slime/") ; your SLIME directory
(require 'slime-autoloads)
(slime-setup '(slime-scratch slime-editing-commands))
as mentioned here: Loading contribs.
I din't have an .emacs file at all on my system. So I created one and added the above, changing the relevant lines. When I start it up, nothings changed. Leading me to believe that this .emacs file is not being used for configuring the emacs session in the LispBox app.
I did a search on the LispBox directory and found that there is a lispbox.el file deep inside the emacs.app folder that has the line:
(slime-setup '(slime-fancy slime-asdf slime-banner))
Thinking that this is where slime is being setup for use in LispBox, I changed it to:
(slime-setup '(slime-fancy slime-asdf slime-banner slime-editing-commands))
I restarted LispBox and still no change!
- What can I do to get the slime-editing-commands loaded?
- Is there a way to find out if emacs is using a particular configuration file?
