* Surendra Singhi [2006-01-02 22:58+0100] writes:
Hi, Happy New Year. I have two questions about slime. First, I am trying to connect allegrocl and slime. My environment is Windows XP and XEmacs 21.5.23.
My init file contains the following code:
(global-set-key [(f7)] '(lambda () (interactive) (shell-command "alisp.exe +B +cm -L ~/.slime.lisp&") (while (not (ignore-errors (progn (slime-connect "localhost" 4005) t))) (sit-for 0.2)) (delete-other-windows) (slime-connect "localhost" 4005)))
[The call to slime-connect in the last line is probably not needed.]
Initially I was just using the Bill Clementson's code, but I was getting "program actively refused connection error" so I tried adding (while (not .....)) mentioned at
http://common-lisp.net/pipermail/slime-devel/2005-February/003088.html
But now I get an error message "(error "Keyword argument 2932 not one of (:pid :style :lisp-implementation :machine :features :package)")"
What am I doing wrong or missing, and how can I use allegro and slime?
You probably have mismatching versions of the SWANK server and the Emacs-Lisp code (the server is older). Synchronize them and delete the old fasl files in <home-dir>/.slime/fasl.
The second question is about using multiple lisp connections simultaneously.
Based on Helmut's code I added the following to my init file. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.slime.devel/4268
(setq slime-lisp-implementations '((clisp ("clisp.exe -I -m 256mb")) (acl7 ("alisp +B +cm"))))
That should be '((clisp ("clisp.exe" "-I" "-m" "256mb"))) i.e. every argument should be a separate string.
(load-library "inf-lisp") (setq inferior-lisp-program "clisp.exe -I -m 256mb") (add-hook 'inferior-lisp-mode-hook (lambda () (inferior-slime-mode t)))
The problem is that when I do M-x slime, it gives me a "Process Error: Searching for Program". But earlier when I didn't have any values assigned to slime-lisp-implementation, things used to work fine.
Also, C-u M-x slime, shows me `Run lisp:clisp.exe -I -m 256mb' and then when I press enter clisp starts properly.
If slime-lisp-implementations isn't set, we split the arguments on whitespace. But that doesn't work so well when inferior-lisp-program contains a filename with spaces (as it is common on Windows). That's why every argument is an extra string in slime-lisp-implementations.
Helmut.