[slime-devel] problem with C-m-x, eval-region and a host of other functions.

[Sundar Narasimhan]

Hi, Helmut -- you are a godsend. I should have remembered that.
<knocks head />

Thanks a bunch.
-Sundar
Helmut Eller wrote:

>Sundar Narasimhan <sundar at itasoftware.com> writes:
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>>Hi, All: I updated my copy of slime to the dev-head (perhaps this is
>>an unwise thing to do :),
>>and notice that on fedora core 2 with cmucl, a lot of basic commands
>>such as eval-defun,
>>eval-region etc. have stopped working.
>>
>>In the inferior lisp window, when the connection is lost, I see
>>printouts of the form:
>>;; Connection to Emacs lost.
>>;; [
>>Error in function LISP::ASSERT-ERROR:  Short read: length=798  pos=506]
>>
>>My cursory examination of the relevant code has me confused.. since I can't
>>quite see (yet) how this could happen. Is there a way I can debug this
>>or provide
>>you all more info? (perhaps tracing with-transcript or dispatch functions?)
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>In the past, errors like the above were caused by a bug in CMUCL's
>read-sequence.  There's a fix for the bug in swank-cmucl.lisp, but it
>is preceded by a #+cmu18e because the problem is fixed in newer
>versions.  It seems that ITA has some CMUCL version that hasn't the
>fix and hasn't cmu18e in the *feature* list.
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>I changed #+cmu18e to #-cmu19.  Does that solve the problem for you?
>
>The *slime-events* buffer and setting swank::*log-events* to T can be
>used to debug such issues.
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>Helmut.
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