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Emacs with SLIME for interactive development with SBCL on Windows 11

Emacs with SLIME for interactive development with SBCL

Version info:
- OS: Windows 11 23H2 (Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22631.7079])
- Emacs: 30.2
- SBCL : 2.6.4
- SLIME: 2.32

Prep my work directories
C:\>md c:\emacs-profiles
C:\>md c:\emacs-profiles\work
C:\>copy con c:\emacs-profiles\work\init.el
^Z
        1 file(s) copied.

Run Emacs on my work directory, I have my bin files in c:\lang\emacs-30.2\bin
c:\>cd c:\lang\emacs-30.2\bin
c:\lang\emacs-30.2\bin>runemacs.exe --init-directory c:\emacs-profiles\work

Install SLIME
M-x package-refresh-contents
M-x package-install RET slime RET

Update init.el to use SBCL
Restart Emacs and load SLIME
M-x slime RET

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Emacs with SLIME for interactive development with SBCL on Windows 11

Emacs with SLIME for interactive development with SBCL Version info: - OS: Windows 11 23H2 (Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22631.7079]) ...