[slime-devel] Re: [slime-cvs] CVS update: slime/swank.lisp

[Luke Gorrie]

Helmut Eller <e9626484 at stud3.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

> Luke Gorrie <lgorrie at common-lisp.net> writes:
> 
> > (send-to-emacs): Put back WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS* -- not sure exactly what
> > it's for, but I had no actual reason to remove it so I probably broke
> > something!
> 
> The without-interrupts ensures that we don't write partial sexps to
> the Emacs buffer.  If Lisp receives a SIGINT before the expression is
> completely written, we enter the debugger and send some debugger
> messages to the stream, but Emacs will not be able to parse it
> correctly.

Thanks for the explanation -- makes perfect sense.

-Luke