On Dec 17, 2009, at 8:15 AM, Patrick May wrote:
I have a server that I can connect to via Slime and Swank to modify the image from Emacs. I'd like to programmatically send a command from Clozure on my laptop to compile and load a new file on the server. Is there any documentation for Swank that shows how to do this?
The protocol is not yet documented, but you can set swank::*log- events* to T, evaluate your command in Slime with CLZ as target, then peek into the log to reverse engineer the communication between Slime and CLZ. Open a stream to the swank server then output a similar string to send an RPC from CLZ on your laptop to the server lisp.
Maybe it would be useful to include a Common Lisp swank client module in the Slime repository? MCLIDE includes a CLOS based swank client (an extension/update of Madhu's swank client contribution) that could be used as a starting point. Such a swank client could also be used to produce a test harness for swank.
-- Terje Norderhaug terje@in-progress.com