[slime-devel] Showing running output

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

If calling a function such as 
 
(defun test-function ()
  (loop for i from 1 to 10
	do
	(format t "~a~%" i)
	(sleep 1)))

in the repl, I get a whole lot of nothing, and then after ten
seconds, I get the output.

Which is natural, because the output stream is buffering.

So the obvious (*ahem*) thing to do is:
        
(setf (slot-value (slot-value (slot-value *terminal-io* 'system::output-stream)
			      'stream::buffer-state)
		  'stream::output-limit)
      1)

which fixes the problem.  But surely this isn't supposed to be
necessary.

(This is with LispWorks 4.2.7 and current CVS Slime.)
 
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