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Many people like to run SBCL, like other Lisp systems, as a subprocess
-under Emacs. The Emacs "ilisp" and "Slime" modes provide many
+under Emacs. The Emacs "Slime" and "ilisp" modes provide many
convenient features, like command line editing, tab completion, and
various kinds of coupling between Common Lisp source files and the
-interactive SBCL subprocess.
+interactive SBCL subprocess, but they can be somewhat fragile wrt.
+packages and readtables, in which case SBCL in the Emacs "shell" mode
+can a useful substitute.
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