I finally got back to trying the latest slime (today's CVS) with xemacs and cmucl today.
One long standing bug is that xemacs' goto-char doesn't like nil. This shows up with C-x C-k and there are no warnings or errors. I get an error about nil not being an integer or marker. It comes from slime-find-note, in the loop that runs (goto-char (funcall next-candidate-fn (point) 'slime-note). I changed that so goto-char isn't called if funcall returns nil. This gets rid of the warning.
I also noticed that slime-autodoc makes post-command-hook a buffer-local hook. It might be a bug in xemacs but the post-command-hook becomes (slime-post-command-hook t). I think that "t" causes problems. Manually removing it makes it work much better.
However, my default post-command-hook value is '(paren-highlight), so when it's made buffer-local, I lose the paren-highlighting. This used to work fine with slime from 2008-11-23 or so.
Is there something I can do to make paren-highlight still used? I really miss the paren highlighting.
Thanks,
Ray