Luke Gorrie writes:

Hi,

I updated the SBCL backend to use a character stream to match the swank.lisp changes, which fixes a problem reported by Raymond Wiker on comp.lang.lisp. It doesn't look like the OpenMCL backend needs a similar update, but I'm not certain.

For me the symptom of this problem includes totally hanging Emacs. That's no good, I'm looking for the cause.

Great! I downloaded the CVS version, and have it working now (under FreeBSD, so far). A couple of things: As I mentioned earlier, I had to add a (require 'asdf) to swank-sbcl.lisp. This is still necessary; asdf patches #'require so that it (also) looks for files with the extension ".asd". slime should probably check that the inferior lisp process is actually live when you do a M-x slime - I had a an "*inferior lisp*" buffer with no process, and slime was trying to connect to the (dead) process. -- Raymond Wiker Mail: Raymond.Wiker@fast.no Senior Software Engineer Web: http://www.fast.no/ Fast Search & Transfer ASA Phone: +47 23 01 11 60 P.O. Box 1677 Vika Fax: +47 35 54 87 99 NO-0120 Oslo, NORWAY Mob: +47 48 01 11 60 Try FAST Search: http://alltheweb.com/