[slime-devel] . in wrong context

[Faré]

>> Emacs 23 doesn't like variable named .old-prompt. in
>> contrib/slime-repl.el -- it borks with:
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (invalid-read-syntax ". in wrong context")
>>  load-internal("slime-repl" nil t nil undecided)
>>
>> Renaming to %old-prompt% works. Is it dynamic binding forcing us to
>> have ugly variable names? Sigh.
>>
> Actually, it was XEmacs 21.4 (patch 21) "Educational Television"
> [Lucid] (x86_64-linux-gnu, Mule) with various libraries loaded.
>
In case the fix is not obvious, I'm attaching a patch. Can any kind
soul apply it so that SLIME should be xemacs-friendly again?

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