Setup Common Lisp Environment

Debian is my main Linux distribution, so usually it is an easy task to setup some programming language development and usage environment. At first, it looks like before for common lisp. I installed sbcl deb package according to the recommendation from cliki (http://www.cliki.net/).

 # apt-get install sbcl sbcl-doc 

Then I installed slime and several common lisp deb packages. But clfswm deb package does not work. And I found quicklisp provide much more common lisp systems than debian and it is actively maintained. So I decide to use quicklisp for all common lisp systems, only use sbcl deb package.
It is very easy to install quicklisp (from http://www.quicklisp.org/beta/).

 $ curl -O http://beta.quicklisp.org/quicklisp.lisp

 $ sbcl --load quicklisp.lisp

 * (quicklisp-quickstart:install)

 * (ql:add-to-init-file) 

Then you can use (ql:system-apropos) to search systems and install them with (ql:quickload "xxx"). But quicklisp take too long to initialize, so I put quicklisp initialize code in $HOME/.sbclrc into a function (qlsetup) and call it only when I want to install something with quicklisp. To make systems installed with quicklisp avaiable without quicklisp initialization. I add quicklisp software directory into asdf search path. Create a file named $HOME/.config/common-lisp/source-registry.conf.d/33-quicklisp.conf, its contents is:

 (:tree (:home #p"quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software")) 

Then install and configure slime (from https://github.com/quicklisp/quicklisp-slime-helper),

 * (qlsetup) * (ql:quickload "quicklisp-slime-helper") 

Add the following to $HOME/.emacs

 (load (expand-file-name "~/quicklisp/slime-helper.el"))

 (setq inferior-lisp-program "sbcl") 

Then install hyperspec

 # apt-get install hyperspec