slime causes error in Mac OS X emacs23.1.1-nox

[jreeseUE]

Hello, I am running Mac OS X 10.6.8 with Emacs 23.1.1-nox and am trying to get slime running within my Emacs. I've installed slime (at least I believe I have) appropriately in "~/.emacs.d/slime/" and added the appropriate lines to my .emacs file as per the Emacs site's instructions:

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(setq inferior-lisp-program "/usr/local/lib/sbcl/") ; your Lisp system
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/slime/")  ; your SLIME directory
(require 'slime)
(slime-setup


However, when I do M-x slime in from Emacs I get the error: "Specified program for new process is a directory". I'm not sure what this means and extensive googling hasn't produced any solid results yet. Any help out there would be most appreciated. Thanks.

[Ramarren]

The inferior-lisp-program must contain a path of the program executable. In your snippet it is a directory, like the error message states. And it is the directory of the support files, not the executable, which should be either under some bin hierarchy, or wherever you installed the implementation.

[jreeseUE]

Very good! Thanks for your reply. That line was wrong...as I misinterpreted it. Changed to:

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(setq inferior-lisp-program "/opt/local/bin/sbcl") ; your Lisp system

Thanks again!.