Emacs Hy "slime-like" equivalent

[brandflake11]

Hello all,

I am an emacs user who uses slime with common lisp and am interested in getting Hy up and running. I have installed hy-mode and am trying to start a repl, but am having no luck unfortunately. I am using emacs from Arch Linux and have installed Hy from the package manager.

Lastly, when I use python, I tend to create a venv and use that so I can install all of my libraries needed to import

So my questions are:

1. What is the best way to create a slime-like environment in emacs for Hy? I've got the mode working, but I can't seem to open a repl and get evaluation working.
2. Is there a way to use hy with a repl in emacs with a python venv? I know how to create a venv and install hy into it, but from here I'm a little lost.

Thanks for any help!

[Kodiologist]

SLIME is pretty specific to Common Lisp, so I don't think it could be made to work with Hy without some serious hacking. What does work with Hy (and a lot of other Lisps) is inferior Lisp mode. I think that so long as you have Hy installed in a virtual environment, and you use the path to that Hy as inferior-lisp-program, the virtual environment will be in effect for the Hy REPL.

[scolobb]

I had some success running Hy from a venv using Elpy's pyvenv-activate and pyvenv-deactivate. This also allowed me to start a Hy REPL in Emacs. I can't test that now unfortunately, because Elpy has been broken on my (Guix) system for months now.

[brandflake11]

Thanks all. I'll need to try this out and see what happens. I also found that I have the inferior-hy-mode. I think I'm just not sure how to start a hy repl. I'll keep trying it out though and see what happens.