[slime-devel] Re: External format problems with latest CVS slime and SBCL

[Friedrich Dominicus]

Helmut Eller <heller at common-lisp.net> writes:

> * Holger Duerer [2006-11-21 12:10+0100] writes:
>
>> Not sure if these changes caused my problems but it seems likely.  
>
> Yes, you're right.
>
>> After some digging I came up with the patch below and things are
>> working again.  (Summary: find-external-format is being passed a
>> symbol but seems to expect a string.)
>
> find-external-format should be called with a string as argument not
> with a keyword. I.e. the old code was fine.
> The problem was, that I forgot to update swank:*coding-system*.  I've
> done it now.
Well I just had to apply this patch for the cvs from 2006-12-17 to get
it working again in SBCL

Regards
Friedrich