fix a location for current slime?

[danlentz]

One of the very helpful features of quicklisp is to automate a monthly distribution of a current slime. Probably most quicklispers use this distribution always by default. So would it make sense to "fix" a location such as ~/quicklisp/slime/ where the current (ahem...) "release" can be found in order to simplify the coordination of elisp and cl startup? Obviously this can be handled by other means such as shell scripting / environment var or customize .emacs scripting but often I'm starting to see a often the practice of disabling the warning on mismatched versions instead.

As always, I'm a bug fan of QL and many of the fantastic tools it makes available

Dan Lentz

[danlentz]

ummm i mean BIG fan not BUG fan... :)

[Zach Beane]

danlentz <danl...@gmail.com> writes:

quicklisp-slime-helper automates this to a degree by putting an .el file
in ~/quicklisp/ that always sets things up for the current slime
path. You can either use quicklisp-slime-helper (available via
quickloading) or derive the current path by merging the quicklisp
install path with the namestring in
<quicklisp>/dists/quicklisp/installed/releases/slime.txt - that file's
path does not vary, but its contents do.

Zach