[slime-devel] aborting read

[Terje Norderhaug]

On Sep 26, 2009, at 1:39 PM, Stas Boukarev wrote:
> Terje Norderhaug <terje at in-progress.com> writes:
>
>> Does slime provide a way to abort reading from the listener?
>>
>> For example, say you evaluate a form that reads from the listener:
>>
>> ? (read)
>>
>> At this point, swank has dispatched :read-string to the client/emacs.
>> Swank then wait-for-event :emacs-return-string until it gets the  
>> string.
>>
>> How can the wait-for-event be aborted from the client to result
>> in :read-aborted?
>
> With C-c C-c

Thanks. The resulting :emacs-interrupt event does indeed induce a  
break in the (read)... but it also activates the debugger.

I need to abort the reading and get back to the repl-prompt without  
further ado. How can the wait-for-event be aborted from the client  
yet avoid activating the debugger?

-- Terje Norderhaug