[slime-devel] sending form to *inferior-lisp* or *slime-repl*

[Sven Van Caekenberghe]

On 15 Dec 2003, at 10:29, Nicolas Neuss wrote:

> Helmut Eller <e9626484 at stud3.tuwien.ac.at> writes:
>
>> Nicolas Neuss <Nicolas.Neuss at iwr.uni-heidelberg.de> writes:

[...]

> Yes.  I have calculations which need some time and I want that 
> information
> printed during the calculation is shown as soon as possible.
>
> E.g. try
>
> (dotimes (i 10)
>   (format t "~a~%" i)
>   (sleep 1))
>
> with "C-xC-e".  This will show the result only after everything has
> finished.  Inserting (force-output t) gives continuous output and 
> might be
> a possible alternative even if it does require to change the 
> application.
> But even in that case it does not pop up the *slime-repl* buffer if it 
> is
> hidden.

I found this annoying as well. It happens in REPL too. For example, 
when you load a couple of ASDF systems, you won't see much (only 
partial) output. I am using OpenMCL.

Sven