Using Carbon Emacs, slime-message currently uses message, which only shows up to 7 lines. Similarly, slime-display-message doesn't necessarily show all of the message, either. For me, this means truncated displays of compiler notes :-(
The following patch fixes slime-message to show the entirety of a message, at least on my system.
Index: slime.el =================================================================== RCS file: /project/slime/cvsroot/slime/slime.el,v retrieving revision 1.408 diff -u -F^(def -r1.408 slime.el --- slime.el 3 Oct 2004 12:56:10 -0000 1.408 +++ slime.el 11 Oct 2004 02:24:33 -0000 @@ -917,10 +917,12 @@ (defun slime-message (format &rest args) other Emacsen they use the "typeout frame" if it is active, otherwise a temporary window that is automatically dismissed before the next command." - (if (or (featurep 'xemacs) - (= emacs-major-version 20)) - (slime-display-message (apply #'format format args) "*SLIME Note*") - (apply 'message format args))) + (let ((message (apply #'format format args))) + (if (or (featurep 'xemacs) + (= emacs-major-version 20) + (> (count ?\n message) 6)) + (slime-display-message message "*SLIME Note*") + (message "%s" message))))
(defun slime-display-message (message buffer-name) "Display MESSAGE in the echo area or in BUFFER-NAME. @@ -940,8 +942,7 @@ (defun slime-display-message (message bu (goto-char (point-min)) (let ((win (slime-create-message-window))) (set-window-buffer win (current-buffer)) - (shrink-window-if-larger-than-buffer - (display-buffer (current-buffer))))) + (fit-window-to-buffer (display-buffer (current-buffer))))) (push (lambda () (delete-windows-on buffer) (bury-buffer buffer)) slime-pre-command-actions)))) (t (message "%s" message))))