[slime-devel] remote slime fails

[Ignas Mikalajunas]

> hi,
> On a debian 3.1 machine I have successfully installed Slime and Swank
> (debian package, 20051227-1) with SBCL (debian package,
> 0.9.7.1-2sarge24) and, locally, it works.
> Then I have tried to use slime from a remote machine, using a ssh tunnel.
> I have created the tunnel this way
>
>         ssh -L 4005:127.0.0.1:4005 -p 2222 mylispserveraddr
>
> (2222 is the port on my server where ssh is).
> The problem is: when I try M-x slime-connect, emacs returns this error message:
>
>         error in process filter: if: Wrong number of arguments: nil, 12
>
> On remote I am using slime 1.2.1. I tried it with:
> - Aquamacs 0.9.8 (emacs 22.0.50.1) on OS X (tunneling with ssh)
> - NT emacs 21.3 on Win XP (tunneling with PuTTY)
> - nqmacs 22.0.50.1 on Win XP (tunneling with PuTTY)
> all three fail as above.
> Any idea?

 Hi, try doing:

(setq swank:*use-dedicated-output-stream* nil)

before starting swank, iirc that is required if you want slime to only
use one socket. Having a shared filesystem or trump + proper slime to
lisp, lisp to slime pathname translation set up is advised too, though
probably not nescessary for useing just repl.
--
   Ignas Mikalajūnas