[slime-devel] Re: SLIME on a local socket

[Luke Gorrie]

Christian Lynbech <christian.lynbech at ericsson.com> writes:

> >>>>> "Helmut" == Helmut Eller <e9626484 at stud3.tuwien.ac.at> writes:
> 
> Helmut> I don't know why people are so keen to use a setup where the Lisp and
> Helmut> Emacs are on different machines, but whenever I tried to do something
> Helmut> like that (e.g, with remote-compile) it didn't work very well and I
> Helmut> always run Emacs on the same machine.  Is this a feature we want to
> Helmut> support or is this a would-be-nice-in-an-ideal-world thing?
> 
> Not a very good argument, but this is something that Franz' ELI does
> out of the box.

Do you know how they do it? What happens when you `M-.' and the
definition isn't on a filesystem directly accessible to Emacs?

-Luke