[slime-devel] SLIME on a local socket

[Brian Mastenbrook]

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On Dec 1, 2003, at 3:25 AM, Helmut Eller wrote:

> I don't know why people are so keen to use a setup where the Lisp and
> Emacs are on different machines, but whenever I tried to do something
> like that (e.g, with remote-compile) it didn't work very well and I
> always run Emacs on the same machine.  Is this a feature we want to
> support or is this a would-be-nice-in-an-ideal-world thing?

I don't see why not - if we make the assumption of a shared directory,
possibly with different mountpoints, then what's the difference from
Emacs' perspective between a local lisp and an ssh-tunneled lisp? This
way I can test my code on CMUCL (I'm on OS X) from my pretty local
Emacs.

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Brian Mastenbrook
bmastenb at cs.indiana.edu
http://cs.indiana.edu/~bmastenb/

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