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Improve Emacs instructions, point users to an emacs quickstart.
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Useful tip to set environmental variables cross-implementation.
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Expand Up @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ Since SLIME is heavily modular and the defaults only do the bare minimum (not
even the SLIME REPL), you might want to enable more features with

~~~lisp
(require 'slime)
(slime-setup '(slime-fancy slime-quicklisp slime-asdf))
~~~

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See also:

* [https://wikemacs.org/wiki/SLIME](https://wikemacs.org/wiki/SLIME) - configuration examples and extensions.
* [https://github.com/susam/emacs4cl](https://github.com/susam/emacs4cl) - a minimal Emacs configuration to get new users up and running quickly, *with* a tutorial.


### Using Emacs as an IDE
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Expand Up @@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ NIL

You should also note that some of these implementations also provide the ability to _set_ these variables. These include ECL (`si:setenv`) and AllegroCL, LispWorks, and CLISP where you can use the functions from above together with [`setf`](http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/m_setf_.htm). This feature might be important if you want to start subprocesses from your Lisp environment.

To set an envionmental variable, you can `setf` with `(uiop:getenv "lisp")` in a implementation-independent way.

Also note that the
[Osicat](https://www.common-lisp.net/project/osicat/manual/osicat.html#Environment)
library has the method `(environment-variable "name")`, on POSIX-like
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