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[slime-devel] SLIME talk at the Emacs Conference
by Luke Gorrie 08 Apr '15

08 Apr '15

Howdy! Long time no chat :-) I will give a talk at the Emacs Conference (emacsconf.org, London March 31) called "How to write an Emacs-based IDE like SLIME". The idea is to demo SLIME, explain how its development works, and give some encouragement and practical tips to people who might want to build something similar for other languages. If you have some ideas please fire away :) particularly about things I might easily overlook being as my SLIME know-how is about 10 years old! Cheers, -Luke

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[slime-devel] cutting and pasting S-expressions from buffer to REPL
by Faheem Mitha 27 Dec '14

27 Dec '14

Hello everyone, I've recently started using SLIME with SBCl on Debian, where SLIME defaults to using SBCL, at least when it is installed. So far I am very impressed. I haven't been able to take off and fly yet, but I'm on the runway.:-) I'm particularly impressed by the underlining source which has compile errors, and doing a popup on mouseover feature. I don't know whose idea this was, but it is pretty damn cool. Does anyone know the history of this feature? So, I have a question about SLIME. When debugging, or indeed otherwise, I find it useful to copy and paste S-expressions from a buffer to the REPL. I've been using the mouse for this, which is decidedly sub-optimal. I hate using the mouse. I was thinking that it would be handy to have a command which would copy and paste S-expressions from a buffer to the REPL, while at the same time switching the buffer to the REPL. The S-expression would be chosen by having the cusor to the right of the closing expression. I'm not sure if this position has a name. I don't know if this command already exists. I could not find it in the manual. If it doesn't, could someone tell me what code would tell emacs to do this? My knowledge of Emacs programming is non-existent. Please CC me on any reply. Thanks. Regards, Faheem

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[Slime-devel] windowed applications on ms windows
by Mick Charles Beaver 06 Jul '14

06 Jul '14

Hello, I have been having trouble with a bug that seems to only occur when running from SLIME, as opposed to the REPL at a CMD prompt. Basically, when I try to run a windowed application, it will hang when opening the window. I do not have any idea why. For example, the following sequence will hang: (ql:quickload "sdl2-examples") (sdl2-examples:basic-test) When trying to debug it further, I found an odd workaround, though. I noticed CCL had some basic win32 samples. In trying to isolate the issue, I ran the following: (defun hack-fix-slime-window () (load "c:/Users/MickBeaver/private/software_packages/ccl/examples/mswin.lisp") (make-simple-ms-window)) That opens a basic win32 window. Afterward, my other windowed applications will start working as expected. So strange! I do not have any issues running from the CMD prompt REPL, though. According to CCL's mswin.lisp, I do not believe I was the first person to encounter this: <snip-start> ;;; At the moment, attempts to create a window when running under SLIME ;;; fail for unknown reasons.<snip-end> Any ideas? System info: GNU Emacs 24.3.1 SLIME 2014-03-27 Microsoft Windows 7 x64 Professional and Microsoft Windows 8 x64 Tried both Clozure Common Lisp 1.9 64-bit and SBCL 1.1.17 64-bit -Mick

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Re: [Slime-devel] [Openmcl-devel] swank test failed ... test-print-arglist & ccl::*print-abbreviate-quote*
by Ben Hyde 24 Jun '14

24 Jun '14

I provided a possible fix to sllme-devel a while ago. But now there is an issue tracker! So I've opened an issue. https://github.com/slime/slime/issues/161 If Gary want's add color commentary there, more power too him.

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[Slime-devel] SBCL Exhausting control stack
by Jason Miller 19 Jun '14

19 Jun '14

SBCL becomes very fragile once the binding stack is exhausted. SLIME seems to do too much in its default error handling to keep the image stable when we encounter this error. Example from the REPL: ;Define a function that will exhaust the stack (defun foo () (declare (optimize (debug 3) (speed 0))) (foo)) (foo) ; The first run of foo can be aborted, but the second time it will hang (foo) A simple workaround would be to wrap any slime invocations with a handler-bind specifically for this case. With the same function #'FOO from earlier, we can do this from the REPL as many times as desired: (handler-bind ((sb-kernel::binding-stack-exhausted-error #'(lambda (c) (invoke-restart 'abort)))) (foo)) Regards, Jason

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[Slime-devel] SLIME compile and load file REPL stays at "CL-USER" with "(in-package :xyz)" in code and not "XYZ"
by Frederik Cheeseman 17 Jun '14

17 Jun '14

When I do C-c C-k (SLIME compile/load file) the REPL stays at "CL-USER". Shouldn't it switch to "MORSE" because of the "(in-package :morse)" code line? I us GNU Emacs 24.3.1, SBCL 1.2.0 and SLIME 2014-04-27.

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[Slime-devel] SLIME 2.7 released
by Luís Oliveira 02 Jun '14

02 Jun '14

Hello all, SLIME 2.7 is released! https://github.com/slime/slime/releases/tag/v2.7 Cheers, -- Luís Oliveira http://kerno.org/~luis/

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