I have slime with sbcl working in emacs 24.1 but can not get a slime repl to open.
I can use M-x slime to make a connection to sbcl in a inferior-lisp buffer but I can not invoke the slime-repl or get a nice lisp auto-indent when editing lisp files even though I am loading the slime-fancy contrib in .emacs. I don't get any error messages during start-up.
When I try M-x slime-repl I get [No match].
my .emacs file:
(setq inferior-lisp-program "sbcl")
(add-to-list 'load-path "c:/home/bin/emacs/site-lisp/slime/")
(require 'slime)
(require 'slime-autoloads)
(slime-setup '(slime-fancy))
I used this method for the installation:
http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/installing-sbcl-emacs-and-slime-on-windows-xp
I have noticed a pattern that almost everything I try with Python and Clojure works as described and almost nothing I try related to common lisp works. I have also tried cusp with eclipse. I am willing to try yet another approach if there is something more recent for common lisp in windows.
After playing with Sujoy's answer and trimming it down to get it to work, I realized my original problem was caused by the (require 'slime) statement. The following .emacs file gets the slime repl to open as expected.
(setq inferior-lisp-program "sbcl")
(require 'slime-autoloads)
(slime-setup '(slime-fancy))