[slime-devel] Re: Problem in current version

[Luke Gorrie]

james at unlambda.com (James A. Crippen) writes:

> The current CVS version of SLIME is broken with XEmacs with SBCL.
> I get the following in the message area when I start SLIME:
> 
> itimer "itimer-<1>" signaled: (invalid-argument "Marker does not point anywhere")
> 
> And this is displayed in the *slime-repl* buffer:

Aha!

I was scratching my head about this for ages, but I'm pretty sure your
swank and slime are out of sync -- perhaps a stale byte-compiled
slime.elc?

The function SWANK:EVAL-STRING recently changed its argument list, and
it appears Emacs is calling it the old way.

-Luke