Using the syntax "buffer-name:position" under Allegro/Win32 seems to be causing all sorts of interesting namestring parsing issues, rending slime-compile-defun useless (among other things). I have changed the syntax to "buffer-name;position". Still a hack, but it works. Index: swank-allegro.lisp =================================================================== RCS file: /project/slime/cvsroot/slime/swank-allegro.lisp,v retrieving revision 1.49 diff -u -r1.49 swank-allegro.lisp --- swank-allegro.lisp 4 Aug 2004 17:17:55 -0000 1.49 +++ swank-allegro.lisp 17 Aug 2004 21:03:45 -0000 @@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ (defimplementation swank-compile-string (string &key buffer position) ;; We store the source buffer in excl::*source-pathname* as a string - ;; of the form <buffername>:<start-offset>. Quite ugly encoding, but + ;; of the form <buffername>;<start-offset>. Quite ugly encoding, but ;; the fasl file is corrupted if we use some other datatype. (with-compilation-hooks () (let ((*buffer-name* buffer) @@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ `(in-package ,(package-name *package*)) `(eval-when (:compile-toplevel :load-toplevel) (setq excl::*source-pathname* - (format nil "~A:~D" ',buffer ',position))) + (format nil "~A;~D" ',buffer ',position))) string))))) ;;;; Definition Finding @@ -275,18 +275,21 @@ ((member :top-level) (list :error (format nil "Defined at toplevel: ~A" (fspec->string fspec)))) (string - (let ((pos (position #\: file))) + (let ((pos (position #\; file :from-end t))) (make-location (list :buffer (subseq file 0 pos)) (list :position (parse-integer (subseq file (1+ pos))))))) (null (list :error (format nil "Unknown source location for ~A" (fspec->string fspec))))))) -(defun fspec->string (fspec &aux (*package* (find-package :keyword))) +(defun fspec->string (fspec) (etypecase fspec - (symbol (prin1-to-string fspec)) - (list (format nil "(method ~A)" - (prin1-to-string (second fspec)))))) + (symbol (let ((*package* (find-package :keyword))) + (prin1-to-string fspec))) + (list (format nil "(~A ~A)" + (prin1-to-string (first fspec)) + (let ((*package* (find-package :keyword))) + (prin1-to-string (second fspec))))))) (defun fspec-definition-locations (fspec) (let ((defs (excl::find-multiple-definitions fspec))) -- ;;;; Matthew Danish -- user: mrd domain: cmu.edu ;;;; OpenPGP public key: C24B6010 on keyring.debian.org