8.8 ASDF

ASDF is a popular “system construction tool”. The package slime-asdf provides some commands to load and compile such systems from Emacs. ASDF itself is not included with SLIME; you have to load that yourself into your Lisp. In particular, you must load ASDF before you connect, otherwise you will get errors about missing symbols.

M-x slime-load-system NAME

Compile and load an ASDF system. The default system name is taken from the first file matching *.asd in the current directory.

M-x slime-open-system NAME &optional LOAD

Open all files in a system, optionally load it if LOAD is non-nil.

M-x slime-browse-system NAME

Browse files in a system using Dired.

The package also installs some new REPL shortcuts (see Shortcuts):

load-system

Compile (as needed) and load an ASDF system.

compile-system

Compile (but not load) an ASDF system.

force-compile-system

Recompile (but not load) an ASDF system.

force-load-system

Recompile and load an ASDF system.

open-system

Open all files in a system.

browse-system

Browse files in a system using Dired.