[slime-devel] Re: cannot start slime

[Lawrence Mitchell]

Henrique Rodrigues wrote:

[...]
>>> 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))

Coming to this late, this looks like a previous bug that ought
to have been fixed by this:

2004-01-12  Lawrence Mitchell  <wence at gmx.li>

	* slime.el (slime-events-buffer): Set `hs-block-start-regexp'
	before running `hs-minor-mode'.


Just out of interest, what slime revision are you running?

[...]

> Luke Gorrie:
>> 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)!

It means that slime-log-event never gets called, and so the
looking-at(nil) bug never occurs.

-- 
Lawrence Mitchell <wence at gmx.li>