[slime-devel] Lispbox SLIME 2.0 version output goes to *inferior-lisp* buffer instead of to *slime-repl clisp-2.37* buffer on Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 3

[Benjamin L. Russell]

On Fri, 29 May 2009 16:39:43 +0900, Benjamin L. Russell
<DekuDekuplex at Yahoo.com> wrote:

>On Fri, 29 May 2009 15:06:30 +0900, Benjamin L. Russell
><DekuDekuplex at Yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>The output of the following program solving the Towers of Hanoi
>>problem in Common Lisp directs the output of the "format" statement to
>>the "*inferior-lisp*" buffer instead of to the "*slime-repl
>>clisp-2.37*" buffer on Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 3:
>>
>>>(defun hanoi (n)
>>>	   (hanoi-helper n 'A 'B 'C))
>>>
>>>(defun hanoi-helper (n source dest using)
>>>	   (cond ((equalp n 1) (format t "Move disc from ~A to ~A.~%" source dest))
>>>		 (t (progn
>>>		      (hanoi-helper (- n 1) source using dest)
>>>		      (hanoi-helper 1 source dest using)
>>>		      (hanoi-helper (- n 1) using dest source)))))
>>
>>When "M-x slime-redirect-inferior-output RET" is invoked in Lispbox
>>Emacs, the output is redirected correctly, but so is the rest of the
>>output to the "*inferior-lisp*" buffer.  This is not a clean solution.
>>
>>Does anybody know how to get the above hanoi-helper procedure to
>>direct the output of the "format" statement correctly to the REPL,
>>instead of to the "*inferior-lisp*" buffer?
>>
>>(This point is probably not relevant, but I have reconfigured Lispbox
>>to call my .emacs file using my existing GNU Emacs 22.3.1
>>installation.)
>
>Actually, I just discovered that the "format" statement does work
>correctly if I use the default Lispbox setup, which ignores my .emacs
>file, but does not work if set it up to use my .emacs file.
>
>Here is the relevant code for invoking SLIME with CLISP and Clojure:
>
>>;; Setup for Clojure
>>(add-to-list 'load-path "C:/Program Files/Clojure Box/swank-clojure")
>>(require 'swank-clojure-autoload)
>>(swank-clojure-config
>> (setq swank-clojure-jar-path "C:/Program Files/Clojure Box/clojure/clojure-1.0.0.jar")
>> (setq swank-clojure-extra-classpaths (list "C:/Program Files/Clojure Box/clojure-contrib/classes/clojure/contrib")))
>>
>>;; Setup for SLIME
>>; (setq inferior-lisp-program "sbcl")
>>(setq inferior-lisp-program "C:/bin/clisp-2.45/full/lisp.exe
>>-B C:/bin/clisp-2.45/full
>>-M C:/bin/clisp-2.45/full/lispinit.mem
>>-ansi -q")
>>(add-to-list 'load-path "C:/bin/emacs/site-lisp/slime/")
>>(require 'slime)
>>(slime-setup '(slime-fancy slime-asdf slime-banner))
>
>Any ideas on what could be wrong?

Another strange symptom is that Clojure Box, which uses the same
.emacs file, directs the output of functions correctly to the SLIME
REPL, but that Lispbox, when using the same .emacs file, does not. (In
order to use my regular Emacs with CLISP 2.45, I need to comment out
the Clojure-related section of my .emacs file; I'm planning to fix
this bug later.)

Clojure Box uses the CVS version of SLIME, whereas Lispbox uses the
(rather ancient) SLIME 2.0 and CLISP 2.37.  However, when the same
problem occurs when I configure my .emacs file to work with the CVS
version of SLIME using CLISP 2.45.

(According to the blog entry "Installing CLISP, Emacs, and SLIME on
Windows XP ? What’s In Peter’s Head" (see
http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/installing-clisp-emacs-and-slime-on-windows-xp/#comment-478),
under the heading "4. Setup SLIME," CLISP apparently broken
compatibility with SLIME version 2.0 around CLISP version 2.44;
_viz._:

>CLISP changed recently (around version 2.44 - not sure exactly) and 
>broke compatibility with the SLIME 2.0 release. This was fixed in
>development and the CVS snapshot works. If you try to use the 2.0 
>release, you’ll get an error that looks like this:
>
>    INTERN(”FRAME-UP-1″): #<PACKAGE SYSTEM> is locked
>
>So use the CVS snapshot (which I linked to) and you should be fine.
)

Therefore, somehow the CVS version of SLIME works correctly with
Clojure and my .emacs file, but not with CLISP 2.45 and my .emacs
file.  SLIME version 2.0 also does not works correctly with my .emacs
file and CLISP 2.37, but it works correctly without my .emacs file.

Is there a way to get CLISP 2.45 to work correctly with SLIME and my
.emacs file?

-- Benjamin L. Russell
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