Recipe for frustration:

* edit slime.el * save it in a state that you don't want to use immediately * M-x slime * "slime.elc is older than slime.el. Recompile/reload first? " No! * bang head on keyboard as slime petulantly refuses to start

This patch makes the prompting non-fatal.

/s

Index: slime.el =================================================================== RCS file: /project/slime/cvsroot/slime/slime.el,v retrieving revision 1.753 diff -p -u -w -r1.753 slime.el --- slime.el 24 Jan 2007 22:55:13 -0000 1.753 +++ slime.el 26 Jan 2007 19:56:37 -0000 @@ -1549,8 +1551,8 @@ The rules for selecting the arguments ar :coding-system coding-system :init init :name name :init-function init-function))) (slime-check-coding-system coding-system) - (when (or (not (slime-bytecode-stale-p)) - (slime-urge-bytecode-recompile)) + (when (not (slime-bytecode-stale-p)) + (slime-urge-bytecode-recompile) (let ((proc (slime-maybe-start-lisp program program-args buffer))) (slime-inferior-connect proc args) (pop-to-buffer (process-buffer proc)))))) @@ -1650,13 +1652,11 @@ Warning: don't use this in XEmacs, it se (defun slime-urge-bytecode-recompile () "Urge the user to recompile slime.elc. Return true if we have been given permission to continue." - (if (featurep 'xemacs) + (unless (featurep 'xemacs) ;; My XEmacs crashes and burns if I recompile/reload an elisp ;; file from itself. So they have to do it themself. - (y-or-n-p "slime.elc is older than slime.el. Continue? ") - (if (y-or-n-p "slime.elc is older than slime.el. Recompile/reload first? ") - (progn (slime-recompile-bytecode) t) - nil))) + (when (y-or-n-p "slime.elc is older than slime.el. Recompile/reload first? ") + (slime-recompile-bytecode))))

(defun slime-abort-connection () "Abort connection the current connection attempt."