[slime-devel] Console raw during a SLIME session

[Sean Charles]

Hi,

Can anybody help me out here, I am stuck as I don't know what SLIME does 
with the I/O once it is running.

I am writing a data-entry application, console based, and it must be 
able to perform read-char without having to press return. To effect this 
I have had to resort to the following development methodology :-

(a) open a new xterm or Terminal.app (OS X 10.4.8) window
(b) $ stty cbreak
(c) $ sbcl
(d) load my code
(e) start my application

It works just fine, my functions getting a date etc all respond to the 
correct number of keystrokes but the problem is that it doesn't seem to 
work from SLIME  mode ie the "stty cbreak" doesn't seem to be in force 
if I execute it from within Emacs.

So, does anybody know what I have to do to make it such that a single 
key press is all I need to get read-char to come back with the keypress 
inside SLIME+EMACS... it's a bit of a pain having to test it from the 
shell every time I do something major to the application.   is there an 
even Lispier way of doing this, am I missing something, unaware of 
something... I have only been using Lisp for about four months now and 
the size of that HyperSpec still makes my brain hurt  ;-)

Many thanks,

Sean Charles