[slime-devel] Current slime head broken on alisp.

[Luke Hope]

>> In *slime-scratch*, try evaluating (+ 1 'foo) with C-x C-e.  The
>> swank-debugger fails to come up.
>
> Should be fixed in HEAD.
> I think we stumbled on a bug in Allegro's debugger:frame-retryable-p,
> which apparently doesn't handle some (reasonable) arguments.

Thank you for your prompt response!  I updated and saw the changes,
but I'm working right now and don't want to switch it in to test.  I
had just backed off a few days from HEAD to get it working.

>> It works fine in SBCL and Clojure.
>
> Does Clojure have a debugger?

I don't really know how much of a debugger it is, but it came up with
a few options.  I am very new to the clojure world.  Not sure if you
know but Clojure has its own custom swank implementation - as Closure
is not a Common Lisp.

>> Also, does anyone know what happened to the little "eval..." message
>> in the emacs status bar when the lisp is working?  That was extremely
>> useful to me.
>
> Well, Tobias Rittweiler changed that on 2008-08-07.  I think the new
> code displays "{busy}" sometimes (but I don't know when exactly).

It doesn't seem to work for me.  I frequently start off long-running
processes with C-x C-e or C-j in *slime-scratch* and it was great for
monitoring.  If I get some time I might dig back.  Thanks for the date
info.

-Luke