The inspector currently throws an out out of bound error when inspecting arrays of length less than *slime-inspect-contents-limit*. To see the bug: set *slime-inspect-contents-limit* to 10 and C-c I "foobar" The attached patch is in addition to the patch posted in <m3fy4ss6ge.fsf@robolove.meer.net> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.slime.devel/6333 --- swank.lisp.~1.490.~ 2007-06-04 21:47:17.000000000 +0530 +++ swank.lisp 2007-07-13 21:30:09.000000000 +0530 @@ -4603,9 +4608,12 @@ '("Contents:" (:newline)) (if (and *slime-inspect-contents-limit* (>= (array-total-size array) *slime-inspect-contents-limit*)) - (inspect-bigger-piece-actions array (length array)) + (inspect-bigger-piece-actions array (length array)) nil) - (loop for i below (or *slime-inspect-contents-limit* (array-total-size array)) + (loop with array-size = (array-total-size array) + for i below (if *slime-inspect-contents-limit* + (min *slime-inspect-contents-limit* array-size) + array-size) append (label-value-line i (row-major-aref array i)))))) (defmethod inspect-for-emacs ((char character) inspector)