Aquamacs+slime: Loading a lisp file at startup
I'm running Aquamacs + Slime and I'm able to start Slime automatically when I start Aquamacs. However, when I try to load a lisp file after that I keep getting various errors depending on how I'm trying to load the file. Here's my preferences.el
(setq inferior-lisp-program "~/ccl/dx86cl64"
slime-startup-animation nil)
(require 'slime)
(split-window-horizontally)
(other-window 1)
(slime)
(eval-after-load "slime"
'(progn
(slime-compile-and-load-file "/Users/xxxxx/xxxxx/load-seq.lisp")
))
I get the following error
error: Buffer *inferior-lisp* is not associated with a file.
I've tried other functions including load compile-and-load and slime-load-file and got the following errors respectively...
Invalid read syntax: #
Symbol's function definition is void: compile-and-load
error: Not connected.
The lisp file loads (and compiles) fine when I do (load "/Users/xxxxx/xxxxx/load-seq.lisp") from the slime REPL. It seems like when I put it in Preferences.el, it does not wait for slime to load even though I'm using eval-after-load .
You happened to misunderstand the use of the slime-compile-and-load-file function. Its docstring says:
(slime-compile-and-load-file &optional POLICY)
Compile and load the buffer's file and highlight compiler notes.
The function operates on a file which is already associated with the current buffer, and it expects a compiling policy, not a filename, as its (optional) argument. So your code should have been like this:
(slime)
(add-hook 'slime-connected-hook
(lambda ()
(find-file "/Users/xxxxx/xxxxx/load-seq.lisp")
(slime-compile-and-load-file)))
where slime-connected-hook contains a list of functions to be called when SLIME connects to a Lisp server.
But I'm not sure if the Emacs init file is a right place to load such a non-Emacs Lisp code. The CCL init file would be a better place to do it. Refer to 2.4. Personal Customization with the Init File in the CCL manual.
Additionally, the load function is for executing a Emacs Lisp code. slime-load-file is a right function to call, but it happened to be called too early (or before SLIME connects to a Lisp server). It would have worked if it had been added to the slime-connected-hook hook. Actually, I'd like to recommend slime-load-file over slime-compile-and-load-file if you don't have a valid excuse for compiling the Lisp code whenever you start Emacs (and again you really want to do it in Emacs):
(add-hook 'slime-connected-hook
(lambda ()
(slime-load-file "/Users/xxxxx/xxxxx/load-seq.lisp")))
Finally, there is no function called compile-and-load .