[slime-devel] Re: cannot start slime

Henrique Rodrigues hmtr@rnl.ist.utl.pt writes:

good evening,

it's my first time using slime, but i can't seem to make it start. after configuring my .emacs, i try to run the command "slime", but after displaying the message "Swank started at port: 1038" it breaks. the backtrace shows:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) looking-at(nil) hs-hide-block-at-point() slime-log-event((:open-dedicated-output-stream 1040))

Which Emacs and Lisp versions? I seem to remember Raymond Toy having a similar problem in the past under XEmacs, but we never really got to the bottom of it IIRC.

As a work-around, can you try setting the Elisp variable `slime-log-events' to nil and see if that fixes it?

-Luke