2. How to run a Lisp process using ILISP

To start a Lisp use M-x run-ilisp, or a specific dialect like M-x allegro. If called with a prefix you will be prompted for a buffer name and a program to run. The default buffer name is the name of the dialect. The default program for a dialect will be the value of DIALECT-program or the value of ilisp-program inherited from a less specific dialect. If there are multiple Lisp's, use the dialect name or M-x select-ilisp (C-z S) to select the current ILISP buffer.

Entry into ILISP mode runs the hooks on comint-mode-hook and ilisp-mode-hook and then DIALECT-hooks specific to Lisp dialects in the nesting order above. Many dialects call ilisp-load-init in their dialect setup.

These are the currently supported dialects.

• allegro Allegro Common Lisp from Franz Inc.

• akcl Austin Kyoto Common Lisp, the U. Texas derivative.

• chez Chez Scheme by Cadence Research Systems.

• clisp-hs CLISP by Haible and Stoll.

• cmucl CMU Common Lisp, the major development platform for ILISP so far.

• cormanlisp Corman Common Lisp by Roger Corman.

• drscheme-jr DrScheme-jr by Rice University's PLT.

• common-lisp Generic Common Lisp.

• ecl EcoLisp, the Embeddable Common Lisp by Beppe Attardi. A derivative of KCL and AKCL.

• gcl GNU Common Lisp, the official GNU release. A derivative of AKCL.

• guile GUILE Scheme by the GNU Project.

• ibcl Ibuki Common Lisp, derived from KCL.

• kcl Kyoto Common Lisp, original version.

• liquid Liquid Common Lisp, the successor of Lucid Common Lisp supported by Xanalys/Harlequin Ltd.

• lispworks LispWorks Common Lisp from Xanalys/Harlequin Ltd.

• lucid Lucid Common Lisp, currently supported by Xanalys/Harlequin Ltd.

• mzscheme MzScheme by Rice University's PLT.

• oaklisp Oaklisp scheme.

• openmcl OpenMCL.

• sbcl Steel Bank Common Lisp

• scheme Generic Scheme.

• scm SCM Scheme by Aubrey Jeffer.

• snow Snow, STk Scheme without supoort for the Tk toolkit.

• stk STk scheme by Erick Gallesio.

• xlisp XLisp by David Betz.

• xlispstat XLisp-Stat, a derivative of XLisp for statistical computations.

Support for Scheme and XLisp dialects is experimental and your feedback is welcome. The `ilisp-s2c.el' file contains a first cut at defining the Scheme->C dialect, but it is neither compiled nor loaded by ILISP.

To define a new dialect, See section 7.1 Defining new dialects, and See section 6. ILISP Customization. If anyone figures out support for other dialects, I would be happy to include it in future releases. See section 7. Dialects.

The currently supported dialects are listed below so that the indentation correponds to the hierarchical relationship between dialects:

 common-lisp
   allegro
   clisp-hs
   cmulisp
   cormanlisp
   kcl
     akcl
       gcl
       ecl
     ibcl
   lispworks
   lucid
     liquid
   openmcl
   sbcl
 scheme
   chez
   guile
   mzscheme
     drscheme-jr
   oaklisp
   Scheme->C (still "in fieri")
   scm
   snow
   stk
 xlisp
   xlispstat

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