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

[Friedrich Dominicus]

Friedrich Dominicus <frido at q-software-solutions.de> writes:

> 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
Oh, great it must have been some old code hanging around in my
XEmacs. sorry for making this noise.

Regards
Friedrich