[slime-devel] Re: slime-edit-definition woes

[Edi Weitz]

On 05 Mar 2005 21:35:25 +0100, Luke Gorrie <luke at synap.se> wrote:

> Perhaps you can fire up a stand-alone Lisp and try calling:
>
>   (swank:find-definitions-for-emacs "get-projects-for-costs")
>
> and see if it drops you into a debugger where you can do some decent
> poking around? Probably worth whacking it with a SIGINT to see what
> it's upto during the long pause.

Unfortunately I can't reproduce the problem if I'm not within Emacs.
(FWIW, I loaded swank-loader.lisp, then loaded my system with ASDF and
finally evaluated the form above.  That's what you wanted me to do,
right?)

However, as another data point, I seem to come closer to a
reproducible case: The problem only surfaces if I had to compile the
system anew before invoking slime-edit-definition, i.e. if I removed
all *.x86f files before loading the system with ASDF.  So maybe some
information that SLIME collects during compilation is the culprit?

(Still trying to play detective...)

Cheers,
Edi.