8.4 inferior-slime-mode

The inferior-slime-mode is a minor mode is intended to use with the *inferior-lisp* lisp buffer. It provides some of the SLIME commands, like symbol completion and documentation lookup. It also tracks the current directory of the Lisp process. To install it, add something like this to user .emacs:

(add-to-list 'slime-contribs 'inferior-slime)

M-x inferior-slime-mode

Turns inferior-slime-mode on or off.

The variable inferior-slime-mode-map contains the extra keybindings.