SLY is a fork of SLIME. We tracks its bugfixes, particularly to the implementation backends. All SLIME's familar features (debugger, inspector, xref,

GitHub - joaotavora/sly: Sylvester the Cat's Common Lisp IDE

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SLY is a fork of SLIME. We tracks its bugfixes, particularly to the implementation backends. All SLIME's familar features (debugger, inspector, xref, etc...) are still available, with improved overall UX.

That's it. sly-mode will automatically come up in every .lisp file. To fire up SLY, connect to a Lisp and get a friendly REPL, use M-x sly.

If you wish to byte-compile SLY yourself (not needed generally) you can do make compile compile-contrib in the dir where you cloned SLY.

SLY works with most Emacs "completion UIs" out of the box, providing completion in source files and inputting Common Lisp symbol names from the minibuffer. Company, Emacs 27's Fido-mode, and Helm are well-supported, as is "vanilla" completion. For consistency, SLY defaults to its own UI, sly-symbol-completion-mode, useful if you don't have or like any of those. You can turn it off. Also, if you use Helm and wish to have even more Helm-based fanciness, you can use helm-sly.

SLY is free software. All files, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are public domain. ASCII artwork is copyright by Felix Lee, Joan G. Stark and Hayley Jane Wakenshaw.