Hi,<div><br></div><div>I&#39;d like to interact with a running lisp process while it&#39;s executing a long-running function. Currently, any requests I make during the long running function call get pipelined until after the function call ends. As a contrived example, execute (sleep 10) at the REPL, then try to compile (C-c C-c) a function in another source file while Lisp is busy sleeping.</div>

<div><br></div><div>I&#39;ve been reading the manual page on swank communication style, and it sounds like the :spawn option does what I want. Unfortunately, thread support is not universal, and happens to missing on one of my main development platforms (SBCL on Windows). Is there any way I can work around this (e.g. add swank callbacks to my application)? I know this is kind of a long shot but it would be kind of nice to get this working independent of implementation thread support.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks.</div><div><br>-- <br>Elliott Slaughter<br><br>&quot;Don&#39;t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.&quot; - Alan Kay<br>

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