[slime-devel] Re: slime doesn't handle spaces in inferior-lisp-program ?

[Bill Clementson]

On 12/13/06, Nikodemus Siivola <nikodemus at random-state.net> wrote:
> "André" <erdna123 at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > My setup is.
> >
> > (setq inferior-lisp-program "C:/Program Files/Steel Bank Common
> > Lisp/1.0/sbcl.exe")
> > (add-to-list 'load-path "C:/Program Files/Emacs/site-lisp/slime-2.0")
> > (require 'slime)
> > (slime-setup)
> >
> > When I execute M-x slime I get the error message "Spawning child
> > process: invalid argument". Experimenting a bit, I found that:
> >
> > (file-exists-p inferior-lisp-program) returns t
> > (set-variable 'explicit-shell-file-name inferior-lisp-program) + M-x
> > shell will get me a SBCL "shell".
> >
> > After moving SBCL to c:\sbcl and changing my config to  (setq
> > inferior-lisp-program "C:/sbcl/sbcl.exe") I tried M-x slime again and
> > everything worked fine!
> >
> > I've been looking through the slime source (both 2.0 and the latest
> > snapshot) and the split-string calls in slime-read-interactive-arg
> > sure looks suspicious.
> >
> > Is this a known issue?
>
> Yes and no. I've heard of people having trouble with spaces in inferior-lisp-program
> name, but I don't recall seeing a proper bugreport -- so thanks!
>
> By the way: assuming you installed SBCL with the .msi installer, you can
> use
>
>  (setq inferior-lisp-program "sbcl")
>
> as a workaround for now, as SBCL should be in PATH.

Alternatively, you should be able to just escape the spaces in the path name:
(add-to-list 'load-path "C:/Program\ Files/Emacs/site-lisp/slime-2.0")

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Bill Clementson