[slime-devel] Sometimes function arglists stop displaying

[Bill_Clementson at peoplesoft.com]

Peter Seibel <peter at javamonkey.com> writes:

> I've noticed this a few times: I'll be using SLIME and suddenly space
> no longer causes the function arglists to show up in the minibuffer.
> SPC is still bound to slime-space but it doesn't work in either Lisp
> source code buffers or REPL buffers. I certainly didn't do anything on
> purpose to turn it off. I just observed it in Allegro though since I
> switch impls a lot I'm not sure if that's the only place I've seen it.
> I'll try to look into it if I get a chance but I thought I post here
> in case anyone else knows anything about it.

I haven't noticed that with Allegro/SLIME under w2k.

When it happens, did you try pressing "C-h k SPC" to see whether space was
still bound to slime-space? Perhaps some other emacs code is re-defining
the space key. If it is still bound, did you try debugging slime-space and
slime-arglist in emacs?

- Bill