CLISP manual page

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-h

Displays a help message on how to use clisp.

-m memsize

Sets the amount of memory clisp tries to grab on startup. The amount may be given as nnnnnnn (measured in bytes), nnnn K or nnnn KB (measured in kilobytes) or n M or n MB (measured in megabytes). Default is 2 megabytes. The argument is constrained above 100 KB. -- This version of clisp is not likely to actually use the entire memsize since garbage collection will periodically reduce the amount of used memory. It is therefore common to specify 10 MB even if only 2 MB are going to be used.

-M memfile

Specifies the initial memory image. This must be a memory dump produced by the saveinitmem function. It may have been compressed using GNU gzip.

-norc

Normally clisp loads a user run control (RC) file on startup (this happens after the -C option is processed). The file loaded is ${HOME}/.clisprc.lsp or ${HOME}/.clisprc.fas, whichever is newest. This option, -norc, prevents loading of the RC file.

-L language

Specifies the language clisp uses to communicate with the user. This may be english, deutsch, francais, espanol. Other languages may be specified through the environment variable LANG, provided the corresponding message catalog is installed.

-N localedir

Specifies the base directory of locale files. clisp will search its message catalogs in localedir/language/LC_MESSAGES/clisp.ext.

-q

Quiet: clisp displays no banner at startup and no good-bye message when quitting.

-I

ILISP friendly: clisp interacts in a way that ILISP (a popular Emacs LISP interface) can deal with. Currently the only effect of this is that unnecessary prompts are not suppressed. Furthermore, the GNU readline library treats Tab as a normal self-inserting character.

-C

Compile when load: At startup the value of the variable *load-compiling* will be set to t. Code being loaded will then be compiled on the fly. This results in slower loading, but faster execution.

-i initfile ...

Specifies initialization files to be loaded at startup. These should be lisp files (source or compiled).

-c lispfile ...

Compiles the specified lispfiles to bytecode. The compiled files can then be loaded instead of the sources to gain efficiency.

-o outputfile

Specifies the output file or directory for the compilation of the last specified lispfile.

-l

A bytecode listing of the files being compiled will be produced. Useful only for debugging purposes.

-p packagename

At startup the value of the variable *package* will be set to the package named packagename.

-a

ANSI CL compliant: Comply with the ANSI CL specification even on those issues where ANSI CL is broken. This option is provided for maximum portability of Lisp programs. It is not useful for actual everyday work.

-x expressions

Executes a series of arbitrary expressions instead of a read-eval-print loop. The values of the expressions will be output to standard output. Due to the argument processing done by the shell, the expressions must be enclosed in double quotes, and double quotes and backslashes must be preceded by backslashes.

lispfile [ argument ... ]

Loads and executes a lispfile. There will be no read-eval-print loop. Before lispfile is loaded, the variable *args* will be bound to a list of strings, representing the arguments. The first line of lispfile may start with #!, thus permitting clisp to be used as a script interpreter. If lispfile is -, the standard input is used instead of a file. This option must be the last one. No RC file will be executed.

Guy L. Steele Jr.: Common Lisp - The Language. Digital Press. 1st edition 1984, 465 pages. ("CLtL1" for short)

Guy L. Steele Jr.: Common Lisp - The Language. Digital Press. 2nd edition 1990, 1032 pages. ("CLtL2" for short)

help

to get some on-line help.

(apropos name)

lists the symbols relating to name.

(exit) or (quit) or (bye)

to quit clisp.

EOF (Ctrl-D)

to leave the current read-eval-print loop.

arrow keys

for editing and viewing the input history.

Tab key

to complete the symbol's name you are just typing.

clisp

startup script

lisp.run

main executable

lispinit.mem

initial memory image

config.lsp

site-dependent configuration

*.lsp

lisp source

*.fas

lisp code, compiled by clisp

*.lib

lisp source library information, generated and used by the clisp compiler

*.c

C code, compiled from lisp source by clisp