[slime-devel] SLIME on a local socket

[Helmut Eller]

Brian Mastenbrook <bmastenb at cs.indiana.edu> writes:

> 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.

Ah, that's the reason.

I just think that this remote setup is difficult to make work properly
and will require complexity for little or no benefit.  The main problems
I see:

 - filenames for files to compile and for M-. and xref etc.
 - signals. Currently we send SIGINT to interrupt the Lisp.
 - security.

Of course, if this is important to you and you have patches for this,
let's include them.

Helmut.