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[slime-devel] Daily ChangeLog diff
by Luke Gorrie 09 Mar '04

09 Mar '04

Index: slime/ChangeLog diff -u slime/ChangeLog:1.284 slime/ChangeLog:1.285 --- slime/ChangeLog:1.284 Mon Mar 8 02:15:41 2004 +++ slime/ChangeLog Mon Mar 8 18:46:59 2004 @@ -1,7 +1,12 @@ +2004-03-09 Helmut Eller <e9626484(a)stud3.tuwien.ac.at> + + * swank-cmucl.lisp (read-into-simple-string): Use the correct fix. + Reported by Håkon Alstadheim. + 2004-03-08 Helmut Eller <e9626484(a)stud3.tuwien.ac.at> * slime.el (slime-start-swank-server, slime-maybe-start-lisp): - Translate filenames. + Translate filenames. Reported by Dan Muller. 2004-03-08 Bill Clementson <Bill_Clementson(a)peoplesoft.com>

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[slime-devel] Why is slime breaking READ-SEQUENCE in cmucl ?
by Håkon Alstadheim 08 Mar '04

08 Mar '04

swank-cmucl.lisp contains code which makes cmucl break w.r.t. the ansi cl standard; in that it makes READ-SEQUENCE insist on filling its target buffer. The hyperspec says, in 21.2 under READ-SEQUENCE: If the end of file for stream is reached before copying all elements of the subsequence, then the extra elements near the end of sequence are not updated. swank-cmucl installs its own READ-INTO-SIMPLE-STRING which calls SYSTEM:READ-N-BYTES with the EOF-ERRORP argument true. In addition to being wrong, it does not solve the problem I believe it is trying to solve. At the end of this mail is a patch to remove the buggy version of READ-INTO-SIMPLE-STRING. If this is trying to protect against truncated reads, I believe the solution is to run a loop (possibly with a timeout) until the needed bytes have been read from the socket. If I am mistaken, then the assertion that is already there should suffice, making SYSTEM:READ-N-BYTES throw an error gives us nothing extra. Something like the followint patch would make swank.lisp more robust against slow networks: Index: swank.lisp =================================================================== RCS file: /project/slime/cvsroot/slime/swank.lisp,v retrieving revision 1.137 diff -u -r1.137 swank.lisp --- swank.lisp 5 Mar 2004 22:51:12 -0000 1.137 +++ swank.lisp 8 Mar 2004 17:44:53 -0000 @@ -572,7 +572,12 @@ (ash (next-byte) 8) (next-byte))) (string (make-string length)) - (pos (read-sequence string stream))) + (pos 0)) + ;; Keep reading in case the connection is slow + (loop for iteration = 1 then (1+ iteration) + do (incf pos (read-sequence string stream :start pos)) + until (or (= pos length) (< 10 iterations )) ;;until length or appx. 1 second + do (sleep 0.1)) ;; at least with cmucl this is multi-proc. friendly (assert (= pos length) () "Short read: length=~D pos=~D" length pos) (let ((form (read-form string))) Here is the patch to remove the bad code from swank-cmucl.lisp: Index: swank-cmucl.lisp =================================================================== RCS file: /project/slime/cvsroot/slime/swank-cmucl.lisp,v retrieving revision 1.78 diff -u -r1.78 swank-cmucl.lisp --- swank-cmucl.lisp 7 Mar 2004 16:41:11 -0000 1.78 +++ swank-cmucl.lisp 8 Mar 2004 17:46:15 -0000 @@ -4,39 +4,6 @@ (in-package :swank) -(in-package :lisp) - -;; Fix for read-sequence in 18e -#+cmu18e -(progn - (let ((s (find-symbol (string :*enable-package-locked-errors*) :lisp))) - (when s - (setf (symbol-value s) nil))) - - (defun read-into-simple-string (s stream start end) - (declare (type simple-string s)) - (declare (type stream stream)) - (declare (type index start end)) - (unless (subtypep (stream-element-type stream) 'character) - (error 'type-error - :datum (read-char stream nil #\Null) - :expected-type (stream-element-type stream) - :format-control "Trying to read characters from a binary stream.")) - ;; Let's go as low level as it seems reasonable. - (let* ((numbytes (- end start)) - (bytes-read (system:read-n-bytes stream s start numbytes t))) - (if (< bytes-read numbytes) - (+ start bytes-read) - end))) - - (let ((s (find-symbol (string :*enable-package-locked-errors*) :lisp))) - (when s - (setf (symbol-value s) t))) - - ) - -(in-package :swank) - ;;;; TCP server.

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[slime-devel] Daily ChangeLog diff
by Luke Gorrie 08 Mar '04

08 Mar '04

Index: slime/ChangeLog diff -u slime/ChangeLog:1.282 slime/ChangeLog:1.284 --- slime/ChangeLog:1.282 Fri Mar 5 17:55:49 2004 +++ slime/ChangeLog Mon Mar 8 02:15:41 2004 @@ -1,3 +1,37 @@ +2004-03-08 Helmut Eller <e9626484(a)stud3.tuwien.ac.at> + + * slime.el (slime-start-swank-server, slime-maybe-start-lisp): + Translate filenames. + +2004-03-08 Bill Clementson <Bill_Clementson(a)peoplesoft.com> + + * slime.el (slime-insert-balanced-comments) + (slime-remove-balanced-comments, slime-pretty-lambdas): New + functions. + +2004-03-07 Jouni K Seppanen <jks(a)iki.fi> + + * slime.el (sldb-help-summary): New function. + (sldb-mode): Add docstring so that describe-mode is useful. + (sldb-mode-map): Add bindings for sldb-help-summary and + describe-mode. + (define-sldb-invoke-restart-key): Generate docstrings. + (sldb-default-action/mouse, sldb-default-action) + (sldb-eval-in-frame, sldb-pprint-eval-in-frame) + (sldb-inspect-in-frame, sldb-down, sldb-up, sldb-details-up) + (sldb-details-down, sldb-list-locals, sldb-quit, sldb-continue) + (sldb-abort, sldb-invoke-restart, sldb-break-with-default-debugger) + (sldb-step): Add rudimentary docstrings. + +2004-03-07 Helmut Eller <e9626484(a)stud3.tuwien.ac.at> + + * slime.el (slime-complete-symbol*, slime-simple-complete-symbol): + Use the correct block name when returning. + (slime-display-completion-list): Fix typo. + + * swank-cmucl.lisp (frame-locals): Use #:not-available instead of + "<not-available>". + 2004-03-05 Bill Clementson <Bill_Clementson(a)peoplesoft.com> * swank-lispworks.lisp (getpid, emacs-connected): Conditionalize

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[slime-devel] Native Win32 XEmacs w/ cygwin CLisp
by 49gu4n502＠sneakemail.com 08 Mar '04

08 Mar '04

Background: I'm just starting out with SLIME, and it's been just a little bit rough because of my environment, but more promising than ILisp. The complications are: I'm running on WinXP, I've generally used a native version of XEmacs (21.4.13 as of today), I use some Cygwin tools, and since I'm just getting reacquainted with Lisp, I've been trying out various implementations. I tried out Cygwin XEmacs over the last week, but found it less stable overall than the native version, so I've reverted. I did get SLIME going with Cygwin XEmacs and Cygwin CLisp (latest version), no problem. When I switched back to native XEmacs, I had problems with SLIME initialization. XEmacs is sending native file namestrings to CLisp, and the latter chokes on the backslashes. After only a little searching, I found slime-translate-to-lisp-filename-function, and now I define it as follows during XEmacs initialization: (defvar slime-translate-to-lisp-filename-function (function (lambda (s) (replace-in-string s "\\\\" "/")))) However, I have found and fixed two places in slime.el that weren't calling this function. These two changes allow me to get to REPL. The functions that I changed are slime-maybe-start-lisp and slime-start-swank-server. Here's output from cvs diff: diff -r1.228 slime.el 968c968 < (concat slime-path slime-backend))) --- > (slime-to-lisp-filename (concat slime-path sli me-backend)))) 980c980 < (slime-swank-port-file)))) --- > (slime-to-lisp-filename (slime-swank-port-file)) ))) (If there's a better format I can use for showing changes, please tell me how to get it.) Nice code, by the way, it only took a little guesswork to find the hook for translating file names. Very different from my ILisp experience.

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[slime-devel] [PATCH] Help for sldb
by Jouni K Seppanen 07 Mar '04

07 Mar '04

Hi, While I was learning how to use sldb I found myself thinking that it could use some help features. Here are some rudimentary docstrings so that C-h m and C-h k work, and a function (bound to ?) that displays some possible keystrokes, similar to the corresponding function in dired. -- Jouni K Seppänen

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[slime-devel] swank:frame-locals
by Marco Baringer 06 Mar '04

06 Mar '04

i would like to make a change to slime which isn't directly related to slime as an emacs lisp IDE but related to slime's (unexpected) use as a generic debugger interface. The function frame-locals currently returns the name and the value of a frame-local as strings, while this is great for emacs it makes it impossible for me[1] to usefully inspect those values in my debugging interface (built on slime but doesn't use emacs). The change i would like to propose is the make swank:frame-locals return, along with :value-string and :name, a :value and :name-value property. is this ok or is it important that slime remain concentrated on being an emacs interface and not a general common lisp implementation abstraction layer? This particular change would be rather trivial but I can see this being the start of a road slime may not want to take. [1] - i'm pretty sure i'm not the only person using slime without emacs, but i can't remeber who it was who said they were also doing this. -- Marco Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget the perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. -Leonard Cohen

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[slime-devel] Daily ChangeLog diff
by Luke Gorrie 06 Mar '04

06 Mar '04

Index: slime/ChangeLog diff -u slime/ChangeLog:1.280 slime/ChangeLog:1.282 --- slime/ChangeLog:1.280 Thu Mar 4 17:21:55 2004 +++ slime/ChangeLog Fri Mar 5 17:55:49 2004 @@ -1,3 +1,27 @@ +2004-03-05 Bill Clementson <Bill_Clementson(a)peoplesoft.com> + + * swank-lispworks.lisp (getpid, emacs-connected): Conditionalize + for Windows. + +2004-03-05 Helmut Eller <e9626484(a)stud3.tuwien.ac.at> + + * swank.lisp (frame-locals-for-emacs): Bind *print-readably* to + nil. + +2004-03-05 Marco Baringer <mb(a)bese.it> + + * swank.lisp (frame-locals-for-emacs): New function. + + * slime.el (sldb-frame-locals): Use swank::frame-locals-for-emacs + not swank::frame-locals. + (sldb-insert-locals): use the :value property, not the + :value-string property. + + * swank-allegro.lisp, swank-clisp.lisp, swank-cmucl.lisp, + swank-lispworks.lisp, swank-sbcl.lisp (frame-locals): Return lisp + objects, not strings. Use the :value property and not the + :value-string property. + 2004-03-04 Helmut Eller <e9626484(a)stud3.tuwien.ac.at> * slime.el (slime-display-comletion-list): New function. Set

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[slime-devel] Re: Using SLIME with LispWorks on Win2000
by Bill_Clementson＠peoplesoft.com 05 Mar '04

05 Mar '04

Below is a patch that will allow you to use SLIME with the LispWorks WIN32 Windows application on the LispWorks Personal Edition for Windows. You won't be able to start LW via an inferior lisp with "M-x slime"; however, you can use a similar approach to what I described in my earlier post regarding ACL for Windows. Here's the patch: diff -u swank-lispworks-orig.lisp swank-lispworks.lisp --- swank-lispworks-orig.lisp Wed Mar 3 00:08:33 2004 +++ swank-lispworks.lisp Fri Mar 5 10:37:19 2004 @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ (defimplementation emacs-connected () ;; Set SIGINT handler on Swank request handler thread. - (sys:set-signal-handler +sigint+ (make-sigint-handler mp: *current-process*))) + #-win32 (sys:set-signal-handler +sigint+ (make-sigint-handler mp: *current-process*))) ;;; Unix signals @@ -75,7 +75,8 @@ (lispworks:without-interrupts (funcall fn))) (defmethod getpid () - (system::getpid)) + #+win32 (win32:get-current-process-id) + #-win32 (system::getpid)) (defimplementation lisp-implementation-type-name () "lispworks")

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[slime-devel] SLIME adding its own layer of confusion to error messages
by Peter Seibel 05 Mar '04

05 Mar '04

Here's an error message I got in my *sdb* buffer: #<CONSTANT-POOL-IDX @ #x75b9f21a> cannot be converted to a pathname. [Condition of type TYPE-ERROR] Restarts: 0: [ABORT] Return to SLIME toplevel. 1: [ABORT] Abort entirely from this process. If we look at the backtrace around lines 5 and 6 we see that the real problem was a NO-APPLICABLE-METHOD which is somehow causing SWANK to pass my object to SWANK:PATHNAME-AS-DIRECTORY. Anyone know what that's about. This is with Allegro, FWIW. Backtrace: 0: (SWANK::SWANK-DEBUGGER-HOOK #<TYPE-ERROR @ #x75b9f27a> #<Function SWANK-DEBUGGER-HOOK>) 1: (EXCL::INTERNAL-INVOKE-DEBUGGER "Error" #<TYPE-ERROR @ #x75b9f27a> T) 2: (ERROR TYPE-ERROR :DATUM #1=#<CONSTANT-POOL-IDX @ #x75b9f21a> :EXPECTED-TYPE (OR PATHNAME STREAM STRING) :FORMAT-CONTROL "~s cannot be converted to a pathname." :FORMAT-ARGUMENTS (#1#)) 3: (EXCL::.TYPE-ERROR #1=#<CONSTANT-POOL-IDX @ #x75b9f21a> (OR PATHNAME STREAM STRING) 1 "~s cannot be converted to a pathname." . #1#) 4: (PATHNAME #<CONSTANT-POOL-IDX @ #x75b9f21a>) 5: (SWANK::PATHNAME-AS-DIRECTORY #<CONSTANT-POOL-IDX @ #x75b9f21a>) 6: ((METHOD NO-APPLICABLE-METHOD (#)) #<STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION TAG> #<CONSTANT-POOL-IDX @ #x75b9f21a>) 7: (SYSTEM::..RUNTIME-OPERATION #<STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION NO-APPLICABLE-METHOD> #<STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION TAG> (#<CONSTANT-POOL-IDX @ #x75b9f21a>)) 8: (EXCL::INITIAL-DFUN (#<CONSTANT-POOL-IDX @ #x75b9f21a>) #<STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION TAG>) 9: ((METHOD COM.GIGAMONKEYS.BINARY-DATA::FILL-OBJECT-FROM-STREAM :AFTER (CONSTANT-POOL T)) #<CONSTANT-POOL @ #x75b9eb52> #<EXCL::BINARY-INPUT-FILE-STREAM #p"classfiles/java/lang/String.class" pos 15 @ #x75b9e38a>) 10: ((:INTERNAL (:EFFECTIVE-METHOD 2 NIL NIL NIL T) 0) #<CONSTANT-POOL @ #x75b9eb52> #<EXCL::BINARY-INPUT-FILE-STREAM #p"classfiles/java/lang/String.class" pos 15 @ #x75b9e38a>) 11: (SYSTEM::..RUNTIME-OPERATION #<Closure (:INTERNAL # 0) @ #x75b9eb7a>) 12: (EXCL::CHECKING-MISS #<STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION COM.GIGAMONKEYS.BINARY-DATA::FILL-OBJECT-FROM-STREAM> (#<CONSTANT-POOL @ #x75b9eb52> #<EXCL::BINARY-INPUT-FILE-STREAM #p"classfiles/java/lang/String.class" pos 15 @ #x75b9e38a>) #<Closure (:INTERNAL # 0) @ #x75b9ea3a> #(0 NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL)) 13: ((:INTERNAL EXCL::UPDATE-TO-CHECKING-DFUN 2) #<CONSTANT-POOL @ #x75b9eb52> #<EXCL::BINARY-INPUT-FILE-STREAM #p"classfiles/java/lang/String.class" pos 15 @ #x75b9e38a>) 14: ((METHOD READ-OBJECT (SYMBOL T)) CONSTANT-POOL #<EXCL::BINARY-INPUT-FILE-STREAM #p"classfiles/java/lang/String.class" pos 15 @ #x75b9e38a>) 15: (SYSTEM::..RUNTIME-OPERATION #<Function (METHOD READ-OBJECT #)> (CONSTANT-POOL #<EXCL::BINARY-INPUT-FILE-STREAM #p"classfiles/java/lang/String.class" pos 15 @ #x75b9e38a>)) 16: ((:INTERNAL EXCL::EFFECTIVE-METHOD-EQL 0) CONSTANT-POOL #<EXCL::BINARY-INPUT-FILE-STREAM #p"classfiles/java/lang/String.class" pos 15 @ #x75b9e38a>) 17: ((METHOD COM.GIGAMONKEYS.BINARY-DATA::FILL-OBJECT-FROM-STREAM (JAVA-CLASS-FILE T)) #<JAVA-CLASS-FILE @ #x75b9ea12> #<EXCL::BINARY-INPUT-FILE-STREAM #p"classfiles/java/lang/String.class" pos 15 @ #x75b9e38a>) 18: ((:INTERNAL (:EFFECTIVE-METHOD 2 NIL NIL NIL T) 0) #<JAVA-CLASS-FILE @ #x75b9ea12> #<EXCL::BINARY-INPUT-FILE-STREAM #p"classfiles/java/lang/String.class" pos 15 @ #x75b9e38a>) 19: (SYSTEM::..RUNTIME-OPERATION #<Closure (:INTERNAL # 0) @ #x75b9ea3a> (#<JAVA-CLASS-FILE @ #x75b9ea12> #<EXCL::BINARY-INPUT-FILE-STREAM #p"classfiles/java/lang/String.class" pos 15 @ #x75b9e38a>)) 20: (EXCL::INITIAL-DFUN (#<JAVA-CLASS-FILE @ #x75b9ea12> #<EXCL::BINARY-INPUT-FILE-STREAM #p"classfiles/java/lang/String.class" pos 15 @ #x75b9e38a>) #<STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION COM.GIGAMONKEYS.BINARY-DATA::FILL-OBJECT-FROM-STREAM>) -Peter -- Peter Seibel peter(a)javamonkey.com Lisp is the red pill. -- John Fraser, comp.lang.lisp

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[slime-devel] Daily ChangeLog diff
by Luke Gorrie 05 Mar '04

05 Mar '04

Index: slime/ChangeLog diff -u slime/ChangeLog:1.279 slime/ChangeLog:1.280 --- slime/ChangeLog:1.279 Wed Mar 3 15:57:46 2004 +++ slime/ChangeLog Thu Mar 4 17:21:55 2004 @@ -1,3 +1,27 @@ +2004-03-04 Helmut Eller <e9626484(a)stud3.tuwien.ac.at> + + * slime.el (slime-display-comletion-list): New function. Set + syntax table properly. + (slime-complete-symbol*, slime-simple-complete-symbol): Use it. + (slime-update-connection-list): New function. + (slime-draw-connection-list): Simplified. + (slime-connection-list-mode-map): Bind g to update-connection-list. + (slime-open-inspector): Print the primitive type in brackets. + (slime-test-arglist): Add test for empty arglist. + + * swank-allegro.lisp, swank-clisp.lisp, swank-cmucl.lisp, + swank-lispworks.lisp, swank-sbcl.lisp, swank-backend.lisp + (thread-alive-p): Add default implementation. + (describe-primitive-type): Add default implementation. + (inspected-parts): Implemented for Allegro and CLISP. + + * swank.lisp (remove-dead-threads): New function. + (lookup-thread): Use it. + (print-arglist): New function. This time without a custom pretty + print dispatch table. + (format-arglist): Use it. + (inspected-parts): Add method for hash-tables. + 2004-03-03 Helmut Eller <e9626484(a)stud3.tuwien.ac.at> * swank.lisp: Use *emacs-connection*, *active-threads*, and

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[slime-devel] Daily ChangeLog diff
by Luke Gorrie 04 Mar '04

04 Mar '04

Index: slime/ChangeLog diff -u slime/ChangeLog:1.277 slime/ChangeLog:1.279 --- slime/ChangeLog:1.277 Wed Mar 3 02:34:35 2004 +++ slime/ChangeLog Wed Mar 3 15:57:46 2004 @@ -1,5 +1,23 @@ 2004-03-03 Helmut Eller <e9626484(a)stud3.tuwien.ac.at> + * swank.lisp: Use *emacs-connection*, *active-threads*, and + *thread-counter* as thread local dynamic variables. + (init-emacs-connection): Don't set *emacs-connection*. + (create-connection, dispatch-event): Pass the connection object to + newly created threads. + (with-connection): New macro + (handle-request, install-fd-handler, debug-thread): Use it. + + * swank-allegro.lisp, swank-clisp.lisp, swank-cmucl.lisp, + swank-openmcl.lisp, swank-sbcl.lisp (call-with-compilation-hooks): + Bind fewer variables. Most of them are already bound in + swank.lisp. + + * swank.lisp (setup-server, serve-connection): New dont-close + argument to keep the socket open after the first connection. + (start-server, create-swank-server): Update callers. + Reported by Bill Clementson. + * swank-cmucl.lisp (resolve-note-location): Don't be too clever, if there is no context available. The compiler notes buffer is probably more adequate in this situation. @@ -18,8 +36,8 @@ * swank.lisp (find-completions): Deleted. (simple-completions): Use longest-common-prefix instead of longest-completion. - (inspect-in-frame): Moved here from swank-cmucl.lisp. - + (inspect-in-frame): Moved here from swank-cmucl.lisp. + * swank-lispworks.lisp (call-with-debugging-environment): Bind *sldb-top-frame*. (nth-frame): Use *sldb-top-frame*.

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[slime-devel] Improvement of compilation buffer
by Ivan Boldyrev 03 Mar '04

03 Mar '04

I like when compilation buffer appear after compilation only when it is not empty. Very simple patch is below: :) -- Ivan Boldyrev Sorry my terrible English, my native language is Lisp!

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[slime-devel] Sometimes function arglists stop displaying
by Peter Seibel 03 Mar '04

03 Mar '04

I've noticed this a few times: I'll be using SLIME and suddenly space no longer causes the function arglists to show up in the minibuffer. SPC is still bound to slime-space but it doesn't work in either Lisp source code buffers or REPL buffers. I certainly didn't do anything on purpose to turn it off. I just observed it in Allegro though since I switch impls a lot I'm not sure if that's the only place I've seen it. I'll try to look into it if I get a chance but I thought I post here in case anyone else knows anything about it. -Peter -- Peter Seibel peter(a)javamonkey.com Lisp is the red pill. -- John Fraser, comp.lang.lisp

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Re: [slime-devel] Using SLIME with ACL on Win2000
by Bill_Clementson＠peoplesoft.com 03 Mar '04

03 Mar '04

Helmut Eller <e9626484(a)stud3.tuwien.ac.at> writes: > Bill_Clementson(a)peoplesoft.com writes: > > [snip] > > I have another question: > > I see that you can create multiple SLIME repl's to the same lisp by just > > manually connecting on different sockets. However, if I open 2 connections, > > all output (whether from repl[1] or repl[2] goes to repl[2]. Presumably > > both repl's are using *standard-output* and this is why the output from > > both goes to the same emacs buffer. Is this a bug or is there a specific > > command that I should be using for creating a second repl or is there > > something that needs to be specified manually so that output from each repl > > is directed to the correct buffer? A side effect of this is that once you > > evaluate something in repl[1] and the output is sent to repl[2], the prompt > > disappears from repl[1]. You can still enter expressions and evaluate them; > > however, you no longer have the prompt. > > This wasn't supported. There were some global variables and creating > a second socket overwrote the current state, so that all requests were > effectively handled by the second connection. I reorganized some > things a bit and the variables in question are now thread local. It > should now work to create multiple servers in the same Lisp. That fixes it - thanks! - Bill

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Re: [slime-devel] Using SLIME with ACL on Win2000
by Bill_Clementson＠peoplesoft.com 03 Mar '04

03 Mar '04

Helmut Eller <e9626484(a)stud3.tuwien.ac.at> writes: > Bill_Clementson(a)peoplesoft.com writes: > > > I've just recently tried out SLIME on Windows and think it's really neat. > > (I posted a comment on my weblog a few days ago at: > > http://home.comcast.net/~bc19191/blog/040229.html ) > > Thank you for the kind words in the article. We should probably make > a link from our Cliki pages. That's fine with me. > [snip] > > > (load "c:/usr/home/site/slime/swank-loader.lisp") > > (swank::create-swank-server 4005) > > > > Is this typical or is there some better approach? > > The normal way to start Lisp is M-x slime. Is there a reason you > can't use that? The lisp executable needs to be a WIN32 console application in order to be launched from an Emacs inferior lisp process. The ACL Trial edition executables under MS Windows are WIN32 Windows applications and can not be launched from an inferior lisp in Emacs. Franz also ship a build.exe with their regular product (but not the trial edition) - this is a WIN32 console application but there are issues with multiprocessing support with this executable and it is really only shipped (IMO) for legacy support reasons. Therefore, regardless of whether you use the ACL trial or the ACL commercial product under Windows, it is preferable to use the Windows application version of the executable. That is why I manually launch alisp.exe and load the .slime.lisp file to start up swank. > [snip] > > > Is there some alternative way to connect to an already started lisp process > > or am I just doing something wrong? > > We used to close the server socket when the connection was > established. The latest version has a DONT-CLOSE argument and you > should now be able to reconnect if you start it with: > > (swank:create-swank-server 4005 :spawn #'swank::simple-announce-function t) > > [I will probably switch to keyword arguments in the future or add a > new function] Neat - my version of SLIME was ancient (3 days :-) old) so I didn't have that functionality. However, I've downloaded the latest CVS version and it works perfectly! > And in case it wasn't obvious, there should never be a need to > disconnect. That would be is a bug and I'd like hear about it. If I have a long-running process, it is nice to be able to exit Emacs and re-connect to a running lisp. I have another question: I see that you can create multiple SLIME repl's to the same lisp by just manually connecting on different sockets. However, if I open 2 connections, all output (whether from repl[1] or repl[2] goes to repl[2]. Presumably both repl's are using *standard-output* and this is why the output from both goes to the same emacs buffer. Is this a bug or is there a specific command that I should be using for creating a second repl or is there something that needs to be specified manually so that output from each repl is directed to the correct buffer? A side effect of this is that once you evaluate something in repl[1] and the output is sent to repl[2], the prompt disappears from repl[1]. You can still enter expressions and evaluate them; however, you no longer have the prompt. - Bill

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Re: [slime-devel] Sometimes function arglists stop displaying
by Bill_Clementson＠peoplesoft.com 03 Mar '04

03 Mar '04

Peter Seibel <peter(a)javamonkey.com> writes: > I've noticed this a few times: I'll be using SLIME and suddenly space > no longer causes the function arglists to show up in the minibuffer. > SPC is still bound to slime-space but it doesn't work in either Lisp > source code buffers or REPL buffers. I certainly didn't do anything on > purpose to turn it off. I just observed it in Allegro though since I > switch impls a lot I'm not sure if that's the only place I've seen it. > I'll try to look into it if I get a chance but I thought I post here > in case anyone else knows anything about it. I haven't noticed that with Allegro/SLIME under w2k. When it happens, did you try pressing "C-h k SPC" to see whether space was still bound to slime-space? Perhaps some other emacs code is re-defining the space key. If it is still bound, did you try debugging slime-space and slime-arglist in emacs? - Bill

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[slime-devel] Using SLIME with ACL on Win2000
by Bill_Clementson＠peoplesoft.com 03 Mar '04

03 Mar '04

I've just recently tried out SLIME on Windows and think it's really neat. (I posted a comment on my weblog a few days ago at: http://home.comcast.net/~bc19191/blog/040229.html ) I initially played around with CLISP and SLIME but have recently started using SLIME with ACL under W2K. I'm impressed by how much functionality you guys have delivered in the last few months. I have 2 questions: 1. How do most people who are using ACL with Windows connect? I have the following in my .emacs file so that I kick off ACL and start SLIME by pressing "F5": (global-set-key [(f5)] '(lambda () (interactive) (shell-command "c:/bin/acl-6.2/alisp.exe +B +cm -L ~/.slime.lisp&") (delete-other-windows) (slime-connect "localhost" 4005))) (the slime.lisp file that I load automatically has the following 2 lines in it: (load "c:/usr/home/site/slime/swank-loader.lisp") (swank::create-swank-server 4005) Is this typical or is there some better approach? 2. When I kill SLIME in Emacs (but don't kill the ACL process), I thought that I would be able to re-connect to the ACL process by just running slime-connect again. However, this doesn't work. The message I get in Emacs (regardless of whether I answer the "close network connection" message with yes or no) is: "open-network-stream: make client process failed: connection refused, :name, SLIME Lisp, :buffer, nil, :host, localhost, :service, 4005" The ACL listener shows the following: ;; Connection to Emacs lost. ; Fast loading c:\bin\acl-6.2\code\acldns.005 ;;; Installing acldns patch, version 5 ;; [eof encountered on stream #<MULTIVALENT stream socket connected from localhost/4005 to localhost/2303 @ #x204df1a2>] Is there some alternative way to connect to an already started lisp process or am I just doing something wrong? Thanks, Bill Clementson

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[slime-devel] Interactive compile loses DSPEC info
by Alain.Picard＠memetrics.com 03 Mar '04

03 Mar '04

Another one: I'm using latest CVS slime + Lispworks on Linux. If I compile and load my system from scratch, I can use M-. to jump around function definitions. but if I go to a function, hit C-c C-c to recompile the function, jump to a different emacs buffer and try M-. on the newly compiled function, I now get: make-single-line (:error The file #P"/tmp/filecLlfIH.lisp" does not exist.) (:location (:file /home/kooks/XOS/Bullseye/src/Common/generic-utilities.lisp) (:function-name MAKE-SINGLE-LINE)) in the *XREF buffer. Cheers,

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[slime-devel] Daily ChangeLog diff
by Luke Gorrie 03 Mar '04

03 Mar '04

Index: slime/ChangeLog diff -u slime/ChangeLog:1.276 slime/ChangeLog:1.277 --- slime/ChangeLog:1.276 Mon Mar 1 10:46:27 2004 +++ slime/ChangeLog Wed Mar 3 02:34:35 2004 @@ -1,3 +1,38 @@ +2004-03-03 Helmut Eller <e9626484(a)stud3.tuwien.ac.at> + + * swank-cmucl.lisp (resolve-note-location): Don't be too clever, + if there is no context available. The compiler notes buffer is + probably more adequate in this situation. + (compile-file-for-emacs): Use the :load argument to compile-file. + (inspect-in-frame): Deleted. + + * slime.el (slime-compilation-finished-hook): Use + slime-maybe-list-compiler-notes as default. + (slime-maybe-list-compiler-notes): New function. + (slime-list-compiler-notes): Insert "[no notes]" if there aren't + any. Pop to the buffer. + (slime-complete-symbol*, slime-simple-complete-symbol): Set the + lisp-mode-syntax-table in the completion buffer. + (check-parens): Compatibility function for XEmacs and Emacs 20. + + * swank.lisp (find-completions): Deleted. + (simple-completions): Use longest-common-prefix instead of + longest-completion. + (inspect-in-frame): Moved here from swank-cmucl.lisp. + + * swank-lispworks.lisp (call-with-debugging-environment): Bind + *sldb-top-frame*. + (nth-frame): Use *sldb-top-frame*. + (name-source-location, name-source-locations): Renamed from + dspec-source-location, dspec-source-locations. The result now + includes methods for generic functions. + (eval-in-frame, return-from-frame, restart-frame): Implemented. + (compile-string-for-emacs): Set dspec::*location* to the buffer + location. + (signal-undefined-functions, signal-error-data-base) + (make-dspec-location): Remove temp-file kludges. + (patch-source-locations, replace-source-file): Deleted. + 2004-03-01 Marco Baringer <mb(a)bese.it> * swank.lisp (format-arglist): deal with nil arglists.

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[slime-devel] Daily ChangeLog diff
by Luke Gorrie 02 Mar '04

02 Mar '04

Index: slime/ChangeLog diff -u slime/ChangeLog:1.274 slime/ChangeLog:1.276 --- slime/ChangeLog:1.274 Sun Feb 29 04:07:07 2004 +++ slime/ChangeLog Mon Mar 1 10:46:27 2004 @@ -1,3 +1,21 @@ +2004-03-01 Marco Baringer <mb(a)bese.it> + + * swank.lisp (format-arglist): deal with nil arglists. + +2004-03-01 Helmut Eller <e9626484(a)stud3.tuwien.ac.at> + + * swank-lispworks.lisp (compile-string-for-emacs): Patch the + recorded source locations. + (replace-source-file, patch-source-locations): New function. + (dspec-buffer-position): Handle defgeneric. + (make-dspec-location): Handle (patched) emacs-buffer locations. + (emacs-buffer-location-p): New function. + (describe-primitive-type, inspected-parts): Implemented. + (kill-thread): Implemented. + + * swank-sbcl.lisp, swank-cmucl.lisp, swank-allegro.lisp + (kill-thread): Implemented. + 2004-02-29 Helmut Eller <e9626484(a)stud3.tuwien.ac.at> * slime.el (slime-complete-symbol): Make slime-complete-symbol

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[slime-devel] Daily ChangeLog diff
by Luke Gorrie 01 Mar '04

01 Mar '04

Index: slime/ChangeLog diff -u slime/ChangeLog:1.273 slime/ChangeLog:1.274 --- slime/ChangeLog:1.273 Sat Feb 28 04:13:26 2004 +++ slime/ChangeLog Sun Feb 29 04:07:07 2004 @@ -1,3 +1,25 @@ +2004-02-29 Helmut Eller <e9626484(a)stud3.tuwien.ac.at> + + * slime.el (slime-complete-symbol): Make slime-complete-symbol + customizable. I don't understand how the ILISP style completion + is supposed to work and find it unintuitive. + (slime-complete-symbol-function): New variable. + (slime-complete-symbol*): Renamed from slime-complete-symbol. + (slime-simple-complete-symbol, slime-simple-completions): New + function. + (slime-compiler-notes-to-tree): Return a list of trees, not a single + tree. + + * swank.lisp (format-arglist): Don't use a custom pprint table. + Didn't work with CLISP and the behavior was different in SBCL and + Lispworks. + (completions): Factorize. + (parse-completion-arguments, format-completion-set, + (completion-set, find-matching-symbols, find-completions): New + functions. + (simple-completions): New function. + (prefix-match-p) New function. + 2004-02-28 Helmut Eller <e9626484(a)stud3.tuwien.ac.at> * slime.el (slime-compilation-finished-hook): New hook variable.

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