[pro] How to interact with a running lisp instance?

[Faré]

On 17 December 2010 15:21, Daniel Weinreb <dlw at itasoftware.com> wrote:
> (1) Swank is pre-loaded into the server, so if we want to get in and
> look around, we can run Emacs with slime, and tell slime to connect
> over a TCP connection.  As Gail points out, you have to be careful to
> use the version of Slime that corresponds to the version of Swank that
> was pre-loaded.  We do not upgrade very often so that hasn't been a
> problem in practice but you definitely have to do that right.
>
More importantly, we keep matching versions of swank and slime
in our version control system. If you want to attach to a server,
make sure you're using the appropriate SLIME. This way we could debug
years-old production servers using obsolete versions of SWANK,
if only we had any.

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