From: ······@gmail.com
Subject: slime - code formatting
Date: 
Message-ID: <1190487606.412780.275650@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com>
So I've installed emacs and slime on my Xubuntu box (Debian) via the
package manager, and was running lisp-in-a-box on a Windows machine
and notice Slime makes the code nice and pretty (at least when opening
a listp file) with color formatting, and I don't have this setup on my
linux system.  Anyone know how to get something like this?

From: Jason Nielsen
Subject: Re: slime - code formatting
Date: 
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709221527500.9079@octopus>
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, ······@gmail.com wrote:

> So I've installed emacs and slime on my Xubuntu box (Debian) via the
> package manager, and was running lisp-in-a-box on a Windows machine
> and notice Slime makes the code nice and pretty (at least when opening
> a listp file) with color formatting, and I don't have this setup on my
> linux system.  Anyone know how to get something like this?
>

Add this:

(global-font-lock-mode 1)

to your .emacs file.

Jason
From: Alex Mizrahi
Subject: Re: slime - code formatting
Date: 
Message-ID: <46f56ca0$0$90274$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>
 j> So I've installed emacs and slime on my Xubuntu box (Debian) via the
 j> package manager, and was running lisp-in-a-box on a Windows machine
 j> and notice Slime makes the code nice and pretty (at least when opening
 j> a listp file) with color formatting, and I don't have this setup on my
 j> linux system.  Anyone know how to get something like this?

you need to edit your init file (usually Emacs have a menu entry for this).
add lines like that:

(require 'slime)
(add-hook 'lisp-mode-hook (lambda () (slime-mode t))) ;; I THINK THIS IS 
WHAT'S MISSING
(add-hook 'inferior-lisp-mode-hook (lambda () (inferior-slime-mode t)))

(paren-set-mode 'blink-paren)
(setq lisp-indent-function 'common-lisp-indent-function)

certainly it's matter of taste, so you'd need to read some Emacs and SLIME 
manuals to make your environment really friendly.
by the way there's also XEmacs, you can check it too. 
From: Tim X
Subject: Re: slime - code formatting
Date: 
Message-ID: <877imiq7gk.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au>
······@gmail.com writes:

> So I've installed emacs and slime on my Xubuntu box (Debian) via the
> package manager, and was running lisp-in-a-box on a Windows machine
> and notice Slime makes the code nice and pretty (at least when opening
> a listp file) with color formatting, and I don't have this setup on my
> linux system.  Anyone know how to get something like this?
>

If you mean your not getting any colours in your emacs slime buffer, you
probably need to enable global font lock mode. The easiest way to do this
is from the options menu.

Tim

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