Download SLIME from
http://common-lisp.net/project/slime/
To use LispWorks with SLIME it is best to use an image which does not start the LispWorks IDE automatically. You can create such an image with LispWorks Professional or Enterprise Edition. Save it as ~/lw-console
as described in Saving a non-GUI image with multiprocessing enabled.
Configure Emacs to use "~/lw-console"
as the value of inferior-lisp-program
as shown in the SLIME README.
Start LispWorks Personal Edition, which starts the LispWorks IDE automatically.
Execute these forms in the LispWorks IDE:
(load "/path/to/slime/swank-loader")
(swank-loader:init)
(swank:create-server :port 4005)
Inside Emacs, Meta+X slime-connect
. Use the same port given above.
LispWorks User Guide and Reference Manual - 20 Sep 2017