[slime-devel] Re: Spawning child process: invalid argument / Emacs on W2K + SBCL 0.9.12

Nikodemus Siivola nikodemus at random-state.net
Tue Aug 15 09:46:54 UTC 2006


"Peri Didaskalou" <pfd at torfree.net> writes:

> Unfortunately I currently need to hack on a Win2K box.
> I don't think it's my choice of CL impl; tried Clisp & SBCL 0.9.12.
> I added the requisite four lines to .emacs (which my Emacs, v21.3
> can definitely see), but I keep getting:
>
>    Spawning child process: invalid argument 
>
> when I M-x slime .  I get a little something, a  menu bar ' SLIME' addition,
> when I M-x slime-mode; but no REPL, etc.

What is the

 inferior-lisp-program 

set to in your .emacs?

Cheers,

  -- Nikodemus              Schemer: "Buddha is small, clean, and serious."
                   Lispnik: "Buddha is big, has hairy armpits, and laughs."




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