I am trying to setup the slime mode in emacs for using common lisp. When I attemp to start slime with M-x slime I get an error message saying:
process inferior-lisp not running.
So, I checked the value of the variable inferior-lisp-program which turned out to be "/opt/sbcl/bin/sbcl". sbcl is an acronym for an implementation of common lisp known as steel bank common lisp. Note that this variable is defined in file slime.el. As I do not have sbcl (the previous directory does not even exist on my machine) installed on my machine (which runs os x 10.8.3) this will not work.
I have the clisp implementation which is located in the directory: /opt/local/bin/. I tried to change the value of the variable inferior-lisp-program by:
(setq inferior-lisp-program '/opt/local/bin/clisp/)
However, this did not work and I do not know what else to try.
EDIT: Here is some extra information I believe that could be helpful. If I try to just start common lisp in emacs by executing M-x run-lisp I get the following output from emacs:
(progn (load "/Users/s2s2/.emacs.d/slime/swank-loader.lisp" :verbose t) (funcall \
(read-from-string "swank-loader:init")) (funcall (read-from-string "swank:start-s\
erver") "/var/folders/wf/yjgymt8j14v2tqwjnny68wq00000gn/T/slime.28222"))
Can't exec program: /opt/sbcl/bin/sbcl
Process inferior-lisp exited abnormally with code 1
Can't exec program: /opt/sbcl/bin/sbcl
Process inferior-lisp exited abnormally with code 1
Hope this helps! All help is greatly appreciated!
The variable slime-lisp-implementations has higher priority than inferior-lisp-program for slime if set; try this instead (adjust parameters accordingly):
(setq slime-lisp-implementations
'((clisp ("/opt/local/bin/clisp" "-q -I"))
(sbcl ("/usr/local/bin/sbcl") :coding-system utf-8-unix)))