[slime-devel] Re: cannot start slime

[Luke Gorrie]

Henrique Rodrigues <hmtr at rnl.ist.utl.pt> writes:

> good evening,
>
> it's my first time using slime, but i can't seem to make it
> start. after configuring my .emacs, i try to run the command "slime",
> but after displaying the message "Swank started at port: 1038" it
> breaks. the backtrace shows:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
>   looking-at(nil)
>   hs-hide-block-at-point()
>   slime-log-event((:open-dedicated-output-stream 1040))

Which Emacs and Lisp versions? I seem to remember Raymond Toy having a
similar problem in the past under XEmacs, but we never really got to
the bottom of it IIRC.

As a work-around, can you try setting the Elisp variable
`slime-log-events' to nil and see if that fixes it?

-Luke