[slime-devel] Closing a SLIME connection without stopping the SWANK server

[Stas Boukarev]

Sebastian Tennant <sebyte at smolny.plus.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> Having now got a SWANK server that doesn't kill its host Lisp when it is
> stopped, I'm wondering if it's possible to close a SLIME connection without
> stopping the SWANK server?
>
> At the moment, when I do ',disconnect' in my SLIME REPL it stops the SWANK
> server and I have to re-attach to the SBCL image (using attachtty) and recreate
> the SWANK server before I can re-connect again with SLIME.
>
> I've tried setting swank:*dont-close* to true, but it makes no difference.
I don't know how and when you are setting it, but it should work. Try
passing :dont-close t directly to CREATE-SERVER.

> Perhaps ',disconnect' is supposed to stop the SWANK server... I don't know.
>
> My swank:*comunication-style* is currently 'spawn'.  I wonder if changing this
> might affect things?  (Strangely, swank-backend:preferred-communication-style
> is unbound).
FWIW, it's swank-backend::preferred-communication-style

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With best regards, Stas.