mega@retes.hu (Gábor Melis) writes:
Hi
If I connect to a swank server starting simply with:
(require :swank) (swank:create-server :port 4095 :dont-close t)and evaluate an output producing form such as:
(loop (format t "~S~%" *standard-output*) (sleep 2))then the output is printed to the repl, but after disconnecting and connecting again the output no longer makes it there. This is seemingly regardless of the value of *GLOBALLY-REDIRECT-IO* (set in ~/.swank.lisp) which is contradicting the documentation at
https://common-lisp.net/project/slime/doc/html/Global-IO-Redirection.html
Is there a way to get standard streams redirected to the new repl upon reconnect?
AFAIK, there's no global variable holding the slime streams. They're bound to in local lexical variables.
Is the looping thread still running after disconnecting? I would expect it to be killed by the disconnection.
If *standard-output* wasn't the slime stream itself, but a CL redirecting stream, I don't know that CL implementations block threads trying to do I/O on them until the base thread is again available for I/O.
I'm not saying that what you want is impossible, just that it'd require more sophisticated (and more interesting to implement) mechanisms than currently available.