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quark
quark

Reputation: 511

common lisp and emacs

I'm trying to install common lisp on an Ubuntu system with no success so far . I'm newbie in emacs and linux . I tried using lispbox by downloading the tar ball and running sh lispbox.sh command but the shell reports Bad substitution error . What I need is step-by-step instruction on how to get common lisp running with emacs so that I can start programming .

Upvotes: 2

Views: 481

Answers (2)

Gwang-Jin Kim
Gwang-Jin Kim

Reputation: 10128

  1. go to https://portacle.github.io/ (a newer lispbox-like ready-to-use emacs/SLIME-sbcl-quicklisp system).

  2. download and install it and start it following instructions there.

For ubuntu 64 bit:

wget https://github.com/portacle/portacle/releases/download/1.2b/lin-portacle.tar.xz
tar xJf lin-portacle.tar.xz
cd portacle
./portacle.run
# enjoy :)

Minimal set of commands needed to program common lisp in SLIME by me

Upvotes: 0

Svante
Svante

Reputation: 51561

  1. Use your package manager to install SBCL (Steel Bank Common Lisp).
  2. Download Quicklisp from http://quicklisp.org. There are complete instructions there, but I shall try to filter the important steps:
  3. Run sbcl --load "quicklisp.lisp".
  4. At the SBCL prompt, run (quicklisp-quickstart:install).
  5. At the SBCL prompt, run (ql:add-to-init-file) (press Enter to confirm).
  6. At the SBCL prompt, run (ql:quickload "quicklisp-slime-helper"). This will create a file that you can load in your .emacs to setup Slime.

Now you can open your Emacs, do M-x slime and hack away. Be sure to read the documentation for Quicklisp and Slime.

Upvotes: 6

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