emacs and lisp

jonathanz1980 · 08-07-2004, 05:55 AM

hi folks,
i am trying to run lisp as an inferior process in emacs
i added in my .emacs file the following:
(setq inferior-lisp-program "/usr/bin/clisp")

however when i run mx run-lisp, it told me : searching for program: no such file or directory:lisp.
what's wrong??
thanks

wipe · 08-09-2004, 06:19 AM

Is the file .emacs in your home directory, readable and owned by you? Are you starting Emacs with the command line option -q, -u or --user?

Check the output of these commands:
ls -l ~/.emacs
cat ~/.emacs
which emacs

Simon

jonathanz1980 · 08-09-2004, 12:09 PM

I found out that i wasn't modifying my .emacs but the one under /etc/dev. who/what is that one for?
thank you for your help!

wipe · 08-09-2004, 02:03 PM

You're welcome! I haven't heard of /etc/dev before. Sounds weird. It might be related to some hardware you've installed. What distro do you use? Put it in your profile; it helps if you ask more questions.

Simon

cracauer · 09-24-2004, 10:00 AM

Jonathan, do you understand that ilisp is for accessing an external Lisp engine (usually Common Lisp) and does not interface with the integral elisp?

If you want to use ilisp with a Common Lisp, then you need to download and install CMU Common Lisp or CLisp.