Enable autocomplete in sbcl

Question

I recently started learning lisp and had mostly bin using clisp and vim. I also wanted to try sbcl, as it is often recommended as one of the best, free lisp compilers. However, there is one thing that makes sbcl more difficult for me: I cannot get autocomplete in the REPL that I have in clisp. That is, when I run sbcl and type in the following (as an example),

* (requi<tab>

where <tab>is a literal tab character, I do not get a list of completions, but rather a detailed tab character. In clisp, <tab>complete the previous line before * (require.

Since I'm pretty new to lisp, the autocomplete function in clisp is really convenient, so it would be very convenient if someone could explain how to get it in sbcl.

Answer 1

One way to get autocomplete in SBCL is to use linedit, from http://common-lisp.net/project/linedit/ . The second is to use rlwrap, a readline shell, with a suitable completion file. (I think it's fair to say that none of them are used as emacs, which of course also provides REPL termination with many other useful functions.)

Answer 2

I don’t know how to get REPL autocomplete in SBCL, but I find that interacting with my lisp environment from inside SLIME is very convenient, and at this point you can use Cc Ci for auto-completion.

Answer 3

If you want to use sbcl, emacs and slime, follow this guide to Modern Common Lisp on Linux . The tutorial mentions installation, quicklispand especially (ql:quickload "quicklisp-slime-helper"), elispscript, which causes the mucus to autofill and much more.