[slime-devel] Re: Recursive edit?

[Peter Seibel]

Helmut Eller <e9626484 at stud3.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

> 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.

I belive that theory fits my observations--I *have* been mucking
around with Swank code. So is the best thing to do to say 'y' and
proceed on my way.

-Peter

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Peter Seibel                                      peter at javamonkey.com

         Lisp is the red pill. -- John Fraser, comp.lang.lisp