* "Tobias C. Rittweiler" 87y7kf89c4.fsf@freebits.de : |> There is also, I believe, at present, a bug in that protocol: Any |> input entered (at the keyboard by the user) in the SLIME REPL buffer |> when slime is evaluating a form, is wiped out when slime finishes |> evaluating the form and prinpts the prompt. This can be irritating at |> times. | | Hm, if I do type (sleep 20) RET 'KABOOM RET on the REPL, the symbol will | be evaluated right after SLEEP returned. Are you talking about something | else?
Try (sleep 20) <RET> 'KABOOM but don't try <RET> again
When the form finishes execution, your input, `KABOOM', is erased. KABOOM could be some Lisp expression of course that you are in the middle of typing.
-- Madhu
I verified this for both values of SWANK:*USE-DEDICATED-OUTPUT-STREAM*.
Compare this with what happens in comint modes