Hi,
Below is a patch to allow local network address family (aka AF_UNIX, UNIX domain sockets). Note that `open-network-stream' just calls `make-network-process'.
diff --git a/slime.el b/slime.el index 8fc44ce..4afa883 100644 --- a/slime.el +++ b/slime.el @@ -1497,7 +1497,12 @@ first line of the file." (defun slime-net-connect (host port coding-system) "Establish a connection with a CL." (let* ((inhibit-quit nil) - (proc (open-network-stream "SLIME Lisp" nil host port)) + (proc (if (and (stringp port) (eq ?/ (string-to-char port))) + ;; consider a string starting with "/" a local service + (make-network-process :name "SLIME Lisp" :buffer nil + :service port :family 'local) + (make-network-process :name "SLIME Lisp" :buffer nil + :host host :service port))) (buffer (slime-make-net-buffer " *cl-connection*"))) (push proc slime-net-processes) (set-process-buffer proc buffer)
AF_UNIX is beneficial in the sense that it can speedup communication between emacs and the lisp process, and can avoid the need for authentication (presence of ~/.slime-secret).
What do you think?