M-x slime [No match] in emacs under mac osx

Question

I am learning common lisp now. I want to use slime in emacs, but when I press M-x slime it says [No match]

Initially I download the CVS snapshot and put this in my .emacs file

(setq inferior-lisp-program "/opt/local/bin/sbcl") ; your Lisp system
(add-to-list ’load-path "~/.slime") ; your SLIME directory
(require ’slime)
(slime-setup)

Then I set up again followed this tread Setting the SLIME in emacs

But the problem did not disappear.

Also, M-x run-lisp does not work. When I tried to do so, buffer displayed "Searching for program: No such file or directory, lisp"

Check to make sure that /opt/local/bin/sbcl is the right path, also do a: which sbcl on Terminal.app If it doesn't print a path back then sbcl is either not in your path and you should add it or not installed and you need to install it. — xmonk, Apr 10 '13 at 16:01

Chris Barrett · Answer 1 · 2013-04-12T05:39:53.037

To be safe, try installing SLIME using Emacs 24's package manager.

Configure package management in your init.el:

(require 'package)

(add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa"     . "http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/"))
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("marmalade" . "http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/"))

(package-initialize)

(unless package-archive-contents 
  (package-refresh-contents))

Run M-x package-install slime. That should set up the load path correctly for you.

Those configuration options you had should now work:

(setq inferior-lisp-program (executable-find "sbcl"))

I just did a fresh install of SLIME and SBCL and that's all it takes for me.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 13 '14 at 17:20

This seems to be $PATH related. I had just

(setq inferior-lisp-prompt "sbcl")

in my .emacs and got this error. I changed it to

(setq inferior-lisp-program (executable-find "sbcl"))

and my ELPA-installed SLIME now works on my Emacs 24.3.1 under Debian

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Dec 18 '22 at 14:16

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In the add-to-list line, add a forward slash after slime (i.e. ~/slime/) to make this a directory spec.

edited Dec 18 '22 at 14:16

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answered Apr 12 '13 at 02:57

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score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Feb 12 '22 at 13:55

Configure this into your init.el using c-x c-f ~/.init.el.

(require 'package)

(add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa"     . "http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/"))
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("marmalade" . "http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/"))

(package-initialize)

(unless package-archive-contents 
  (package-refresh-contents))

Reinstall both sbcl and slime.
I used roswell for the whole setup. This site should help.

To use slime in emacs, you add it to using c-x c-f ~/.emacs.

(load (expand-file-name "~/.roswell/helper.el"))

This should all work.

M-x slime [No match] in emacs under mac osx

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