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how to control version of slime in emacs (using melpa package installer)
by Mark H. David 24 Jan '18

24 Jan '18

Hi, I installed SLIME with the package installer (melpa), and I have no idea how to control the version. I would like to run version 2.20, but I seem to have version 2.19. Does anyone know how I can change to version 2.20? I cannot find any documentation about this. Can anyone point this out? Thanks, Mark

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Using ANSI colors?
by Ben Lambert 07 Jan '18

07 Jan '18

Hi there, I just posted an "Issue" on GitHub (https://github.com/slime/slime/issues/420 <https://github.com/slime/slime/issues/420>), and then saw in the README that questions are better directed to this list. I'm not sure how to search the email archives so I'm not sure if this has been asked before. The question (repeated from GitHub) is: I've wondered about this for a while. Is it possible to print with ANSI colors in a Slime repl buffer? If I load the cl-ansi-text library from Quicklisp (ql:quickload :cl-ansi-text), and I run (cl-ansi-text:yellow "yellow") in the Slime REPL the output is: "[33myellow[0m". When I run the same commands directly in an SBCL REPL, it prints as expected "yellow" in a yellow color. Is it possible to use ANSI colors in Slime? Or maybe there's some workaround? Thanks, Ben

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finding an implementation of SWANK interface
by 73budden . 06 Jan '18

06 Jan '18

Hi! Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't know how do I find defimplementation of some definterface. E.g. I want to go to swank/backend:activate-stepping, but EMACS only sends me to definterface, and I have to grep for defimplementation. I don't know how should I handle this, but I added a simple defparameter into defimplementation form. Now, when I'm asking for definition of swank/backend:activate-stepping, I see two suggested source locations: (defvar swank/backend:activate-stepping) (defun swank/backend:activate-stepping) defun is for definterface, defvar is for defimplementation. This works at least in SBCL, I guess it is handy. Patch is attached. This may seem a bit ugly, but SBCL does not suggest a way to extend its definition database with new classes, so I see no good way to go. WBR, Budden

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Getting the source file pathname
by Chaitanya Gupta 09 Dec '17

09 Dec '17

Hi, I need the path of the source file from which a particular form is loaded (similar to __FILE__ in C). Currently I have the following macros in place: (defmacro source-pathname () (let ((compile-file-pathname *compile-file-pathname*)) `(or ,compile-file-pathname (load-time-value *load-pathname*)))) (defmacro source-truename () (let ((compile-file-truename *compile-file-truename*)) `(or ,compile-file-truename (load-time-value *load-truename*)))) (defmacro source-directory () `(make-pathname :defaults (source-truename) :name nil :type nil)) This works fine when I use (LOAD ...), (LOAD (COMPILE-FILE ...)), slime-load-file or slime-compile-and-load-file. However it fails when I use slime-compile-defun, slime-eval-defun or slime-eval-last-expression. Shouldn't slime bind *compile-file-pathname*, *load-pathname*, etc. when these functions are run? Thanks, Chaitanya

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Trouble connecting to Swank running on android
by PR 04 Sep '17

04 Sep '17

Hi, I know that it's possible to run the Swank server on an android device, and connect to it from the PC (people did this successfully). Unfortunately it doesn't work for me... I enabled swank:*log-events*; attached you find 2 log files: - swank-events-log-1.txt: this one works (connecting locally) - swank-events-log-2.txt: this fails trying to connect to swank on android I tried many times, it always fails at the exact same point. I even tried using ssh, with the same result. Could anybody knowing the swank internals look into this, please? Thanks, Paul P.S. I'm trying this with the EQL5-Android REPL example, which can run (from same sources) both on the desktop and on android; so the logs mentioned above use the same application;

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SLIME + Named readtables
by 73budden . 19 Aug '17

19 Aug '17

Hi! I have made a readtable-related pull request long time ago, it was not merged because it was breaking things that worked before. So I suggest to discuss another approach to SLIME + NAMED-READTABLES cooperation. Please see the essay here: https://bitbucket.org/budden/clcon/src/e3c40c555295336a3a13c506cce6a179f9dd…

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how to copy a line from the back trace
by Jim Newton 03 Aug '17

03 Aug '17

Can someone tell me how I can grab a lisp expression from a stack trace, as in copy it in emacs so I can re-paste and potentially edit it in the repl? When I move the cursor to the line, the entire text displays in the echo area at the bottom of the emacs window, but when use use CNT-E to move to the end of the line, the line has been truncated and i see "..". I'd like to copy/paste the un-truncated line. I'm attaching images of what I see. Kind regards Jim

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SWANK defines defstructs in the keyword package
by Martin Simmons 05 Jul '17

05 Jul '17

Hi, swank/backend.lisp defines some defstructs in the keyword package: (defstruct (:location (:type list) :named (:constructor make-location (buffer position &optional hints))) buffer position ;; Hints is a property list optionally containing: ;; :snippet SOURCE-TEXT ;; This is a snippet of the actual source text at the start of ;; the definition, which could be used in a text search. hints) (defstruct (:error (:type list) :named (:constructor)) message) ;;; Valid content for BUFFER slot (defstruct (:file (:type list) :named (:constructor)) name) (defstruct (:buffer (:type list) :named (:constructor)) name) (defstruct (:etags-file (:type list) :named (:constructor)) filename) ;;; Valid content for POSITION slot (defstruct (:position (:type list) :named (:constructor)) pos) (defstruct (:tag (:type list) :named (:constructor)) tag1 tag2) This is generally a bad idea because it can lead to clashes in the namespace of structure names (as used by the :include option). AFICS, except for "location", these definitions are never used because they are always constructed using backquote or list. Would you consider removing the defstructs and adding defuns for make-location and its readers? -- Martin Simmons LispWorks Ltd http://www.lispworks.com/

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2nd repl for same inferior lisp
by Jim Newton 25 May '17

25 May '17

Hi, Can someone tell me how to (or if it is possible to) create a second repl buffer for the same inferior lisp process. Maybe this is not supported, because when I look in the slime manual, it seems to always refer to "THE REPL buffer for the current SLIME connection” Kind regards Jim

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don't recognize component type REQUIRE-SYSTEM.
by lvalais 16 May '17

16 May '17

Hi, I'm trying to run slime for the first time with sbcl. Previously, I was using clisp. I'm using for now the pre-compiled version of sbcl. When I try to start slime, I get the errors shown below. Can someone help? Kind Regards Leo $ sbcl sbcl This is SBCL 1.1.6.0-3c5581a, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp. More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>. SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty. It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under BSD-style licenses. See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the distribution for more information. * (load "~/.emacs.d/lisp/slime/swank-loader.lisp") (load "~/.emacs.d/lisp/slime/swank-loader.lisp") T * (swank-loader:init) (swank-loader:init) ASDF could not load sb-bsd-sockets because Error while trying to load definition for system sb-bsd-sockets from pathname /usr/local/lib/sbcl/contrib/sb-bsd-sockets.asd: don't recognize component type REQUIRE-SYSTEM. ;; ;; Error compiling ~/.emacs.d/lisp/slime/swank/sbcl.lisp: ;; Error while trying to load definition for system sb-bsd-sockets from ;; pathname /usr/local/lib/sbcl/contrib/sb-bsd-sockets.asd: ;; don't recognize component type REQUIRE-SYSTEM ;; debugger invoked on a LOAD-SYSTEM-DEFINITION-ERROR: Error while trying to load definition for system sb-bsd-sockets from pathname /usr/local/lib/sbcl/contrib/sb-bsd-sockets.asd: don't recognize component type REQUIRE-SYSTEM Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:EXIT) to exit from SBCL. restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name): 0: [RETRY ] Retry EVAL of current toplevel form. 1: [CONTINUE ] Ignore error and continue loading file "/usr/local/lib/sbcl/contrib/sb-bsd-sockets.asd". 2: [ABORT ] Abort loading file "/usr/local/lib/sbcl/contrib/sb-bsd-sockets.asd". 3: [REINITIALIZE-SOURCE-REGISTRY-AND-RETRY] Retry finding system sb-bsd-sockets after reinitializing the source-registry. 4: Exit debugger, returning to top level. ((FLET #:LAMBDA2229 :IN ASDF::LOAD-SYSDEF) #<ASDF::FORMATTED-SYSTEM-DEFINITION-ERROR {12B12229}>) 0]

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