[slime-devel] Re: SLIME, OpenMCL and aborting a process

[Luke Gorrie]

Gary King <gwking at cs.umass.edu> writes:

> Suppose I type
>
> (loop repeat 10000 do (sleep 0.5) (princ "."))
>
> by "accident" in the listener. I'd like to stop this from running so
> that I can get back to work but don't see how?

`C-c C-c' in the listener should interrupt the evaluation and drop you
in the debugger. From there you can take the ABORT restart.

> Also, no periods are printing. Where are they going? Are they
> filling up my computer like those little holes from a three hold
> punch? What if it runs out of space? (Sorry, long night).

There is some buffering and I'm not sure of the exact semantics on
OpenMCL. I think it'll flush before filling the code with . characters
though :-)

-Luke