This is an old, obsolete repo that I'm really just not deleting as an historical oddity.
I had an interviewer ask me about it recently. Specifically, "Why?"
Here's the original README:
Basically, port slime to common lisp.
McClim already uses swank, for something. Might as well go the next logical
step and steal^H^H^H^H^Hport the emacs portions into DREI.
McClim is/was an effort to create an open source implementation of the Common Lisp Interface Manager. I got interested in the project because porting emacs to Common Lisp seemed like a better idea than learning emacs lisp.
Which is where this silly muddle came from.
I obviously came to my senses more quickly than I do for most of my hare-brained schemes, since I haven't gotten past the initial overview README checkin before now.
So, really, this is just a bad spot on memory lane.