Luke Gorrie writes:
Hi,
I updated the SBCL backend to use a character stream to match the swank.lisp changes, which fixes a problem reported by Raymond Wiker on comp.lang.lisp. It doesn't look like the OpenMCL backend needs a similar update, but I'm not certain.
For me the symptom of this problem includes totally hanging Emacs. That's no good, I'm looking for the cause.
Great! I downloaded the CVS version, and have it working now (under FreeBSD, so far).
A couple of things:
As I mentioned earlier, I had to add a (require 'asdf) to swank-sbcl.lisp. This is still necessary; asdf patches #'require so that it (also) looks for files with the extension ".asd".
slime should probably check that the inferior lisp process is actually live when you do a M-x slime - I had a an "*inferior lisp*" buffer with no process, and slime was trying to connect to the (dead) process.