[slime-devel] Re: new debugger behavior?

[Carlos Konstanski]

On Sat, 9 Aug 2008, Tobias C. Rittweiler wrote:

> Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:16:41 +0200
> From: Tobias C. Rittweiler <tcr at freebits.de>
> To: slime-devel at common-lisp.net
> Subject: [slime-devel] Re: new debugger behavior?
> 
> Carlos Konstanski <ckonstanski at pippiandcarlos.com> writes:
>
>> Last week I upgraded from slime-2.0_p20070816 to slime-2.0_p20080731
>> (these are the gentoo ebuild names).  We're looking at a pretty big
>> jump here; these builds are a year apart.  In that year, something
>> changed in the debugger that is not to my liking.  I am hoping that it
>> is a feature that I can turn off.
>>
>> When I hit an error in my code, I no longer enter the debugger.
>> Instead, I just get a printed backtrace in the REPL.  If I put a
>> (break) in the code, I do enter the debugger.  I would like to enter
>> the debugger on all errors, like the good old days.
>>
>> Does this sound like a feature that was added in the last year?  Or do
>> I need to look elsewhere for the cause?
>
>
> If SWANK:*GLOBAL-DEBUGGER* is T, CL:*DEBUGGER-HOOK* is globally set to
> the swank debugger which means that all errors should land you into the
> SLDB.
>
> *GLOBAL-DEBUGGER* is actually T by default, so make sure that your
> distribution doesn't interfere in some way (e.g. by some site-init.lisp
> file in SWANK-LOADER:*source-directory*, or ~/.swank.lisp.)
>
> When you can't find the reason yourself, please try to checkout from
> CVS, and see if it works there. If it does, report the problem to the
> respective Gentoo maintainer.
>
> HTH,
>
>  -T.

swank:*global-debugger* is T in my REPL.  I will try the latest CVS
build.  Thanks for the help!

Carlos