Re: [slime-devel] non-blocking read from REPL

* Daniel Patru [2005-11-04 19:39+0100] writes:

It seems that any new input in the slime REPL during a running command is buffered as a new command instead of as input to the currently running command.

As I said in the other message: text is only added to the input buffer if the REPL is in read-mode. The only way to switch the to read-mode is to (possibly indirectly) call READ-CHAR. READ-CHAR will get a chunk of text, append it to the input buffer, and disable read-mode afterwards.

Is it even possible to do a non-blocking read in the slime REPL, or is this one of the things I have to give up if I want to use slime?

I think that's correct, i.e. it's not possible. At least not with our current approach.

Helmut.