[slime-devel] Re: cannot start slime

[Henrique Rodrigues]

On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 04:49, Luke Gorrie wrote:
> 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.

i'm using emacs 21.3.1 and cmucl 18e on a gentoo system.

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

thanks for the tip, it worked (although i don't know why)!


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Henrique Miguel Teodoro Rodrigues
http://www.rnl.ist.utl.pt/~hmtr
Engenharia Informatica e de Computadores - Instituto Superior Tecnico