[slime-devel] Recursive edit?

[Helmut Eller]

Peter Seibel <peter at javamonkey.com> writes:

> Recently SLIME has started asking me a lot if I want to enter a
> recursive edit whenever it enters the debugger. If I say n it freezes
> until I C-g out. If I say y it seems okay. What's that all about?

SLIME enters a recursive edit when a synchronous RPC needs to be
debugged.  This is usually only needed to debug SLIME code with SLIME
itself.  Most RPCs -- in particular RPCs to evaluate arbitrary user
code -- are asynchronous.  So a recursive edit is usually a sign for a
bug in a SWANK function.

Helmut.