[slime-devel] SLIME with AllegroCL on Windows - dumb question

[Marco Baringer]

Edi Weitz <edi at agharta.de> writes:

> Hi!
>
> Attention: Question shows again my complete Emacs ignorance.
>
> I've recently begun to use the combination mentioned in the subject.
> I use a setup as described by Bill Clementson which mainly looks like
> this:
>
>   (global-set-key
>    [(f6)]
>    '(lambda ()
>       (interactive)
>       (shell-command "c:/PROGRA~1/acl70/alisp.exe +B +cm -L ~/.slime.lisp&")
>       (slime-connect "localhost" 4005)))
>
> This works fine most of the time but sometimes fails with
>
>   Connecting to Swank on port 4005..
>   open-network-stream: make client process failed: connection refused, :name, SLIME Lisp, :buffer, nil, :host, localhost, :service, 4005
>
> which obviously happens if AllegroCL is not quite ready to accept
> connections when SLIME tries to connect.  I can fix this with adding
> something like sit-for before the call to slime-connect but either I
> wait too long which makes the call unnecessary slow or I'm still in a
> time frame where the error described above can happen.

totally untested idea: try removing the slime-connet from that lambda
and add a call to run-command (or whatever allegro uses) which calls
emacsclient like so:

emacsclient --no-wait -e '(slime-connect "localhost" 4005)'

-- 
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