[slime-devel] pid

[Andras Simon]

On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Helmut Eller wrote:

> Andras Simon <andras at renyi.hu> writes:
>
> > Looks like there's something wrong with multiple connections anyway.
> > slime-goto-connection and ,restart-inferior-lisp don't seem to work.
>
> Works for me :)

Hm, I wonder what I'm doing wrong. I tried it with acl/cmucl, and hitting RET
in the *SLIME connections* buffer just put me in the REPL of the default
connection.

>
> > One problem I see with this (and I may very well be wrong about it) is that in
> > that case slime-process must not only be set at startup, but kept
> > up-to-date. E.g. if a lisp dies, the corresponding slime-process should be set
> > to nil.
>
> slime-process looks at the process-status and returns nil if the
> process is dead.

Yes, that's what it does now. But you wrote:

| I see; that's a problem.  Perhaps we should make slime-process a per
| connection variable and initialize it at startup, i.e. when SLIME is
| started with M-x slime.

and it's this suggestion (that slime-process be turned into a per connection
variable) that I reacted to.

>
> > Also, is there any way to set it at startup other then by calling
> > inferior-lisp-proc, say, in slime-start-lisp?
>
> No, we have no special way. But inferior-lisp-proc should be good
> enough for the initialization.

OK.

Andras