"GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i386-msvc-nt6.1.7601)

of 2011-03-10 on ROCKHOPPER"

and some not too old slime (2010-12-09).

The REPL buffer opens up, and the connection is made.

So there is something else preventing it from happening

in your case.

Fabrice

(progn (load "c:\\source\\lisp\\lib\\slime\\swank-loader.lisp" :verbose t) (funcall (read-from-string "swank-loader:init")) (funcall (read-from-string "swank:start-server") "c:\\Users\\Fabrice\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\slime.6528" :coding-system "utf-8-unix"))

This is SBCL 1.0.37, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp.

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SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty.

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This is experimental prerelease support for the Windows platform: use

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; loading #P"c:\\source\\lisp\\lib\\slime\\swank-loader.lisp"

; loading #P"c:\\Home\\.slime\\fasl\\2010-12-09\\sbcl-1.0.37-win32-x86\\swank-backend.fasl"

; loading #P"c:\\Home\\.slime\\fasl\\2010-12-09\\sbcl-1.0.37-win32-x86\\swank-source-path-parser.fasl"

; loading #P"c:\\Home\\.slime\\fasl\\2010-12-09\\sbcl-1.0.37-win32-x86\\swank-source-file-cache.fasl"

; loading #P"c:\\Home\\.slime\\fasl\\2010-12-09\\sbcl-1.0.37-win32-x86\\swank-sbcl.fasl"

STYLE-WARNING: redefining EMACS-INSPECT (#<BUILT-IN-CLASS T>) in DEFMETHOD

; loading #P"c:\\Home\\.slime\\fasl\\2010-12-09\\sbcl-1.0.37-win32-x86\\swank-gray.fasl"

STYLE-WARNING:

Implicitly creating new generic function STREAM-READ-CHAR-WILL-HANG-P.

; loading #P"c:\\Home\\.slime\\fasl\\2010-12-09\\sbcl-1.0.37-win32-x86\\swank-match.fasl"

; loading #P"c:\\Home\\.slime\\fasl\\2010-12-09\\sbcl-1.0.37-win32-x86\\swank-rpc.fasl"

; loading #P"c:\\Home\\.slime\\fasl\\2010-12-09\\sbcl-1.0.37-win32-x86\\swank.fasl"

WARNING: These Swank interfaces are unimplemented:

(BACKGROUND-SAVE-IMAGE DISASSEMBLE-FRAME EXEC-IMAGE INTERRUPT-THREAD

RECEIVE-IF SAVE-IMAGE SEND SLDB-BREAK-AT-START SLDB-BREAK-ON-RETURN SPAWN)

;; Swank started at port: 3485.

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