[slime-devel] Re: Slime and XEmacs

[Helmut Eller]

Christophe Rhodes <csr21 at cam.ac.uk> writes:

> Raymond Toy <rtoy at earthlink.net> writes:
> > Would it be better if the message wasn't zero-length?  I can look into
> > changing that if it makes slime work better, and if the messages still
> > make sense.

That would definitely be better.  It should be enough to pass the
message to WARN or ERROR and slime will pick it up and place an
annotation somewhere near the macro call.

> Is there a reason why series is emitting /warnings/ by emitting text
> to *standard-output* (why not *error-output*?) and then calling WARN
> with an empty string?  It feels like a workaround for a long-dead bug
> somewhere.

Ups, it is actually *error-output*.  But that's the same from a slime
perspective.

Helmut.