[slime-devel] Inactive *inferior-lisp* buffer

[Helmut Eller]

Paolo Amoroso <amoroso at mclink.it> writes:

> But if I type any form in it and press ENTER, it is not evaluated and
> the prompt no longer appears. *slime-repl* works fine instead. Is this
> the expected behavior? I can't tell because I don't use
> *inferior-lisp* often.

It's configurable.  Add (setq swank::*start-swank-in-background* t)
to your .swank.lisp and the *inferior-lisp* should work almost like a
normal repl.

Helmut.