[slime-devel] (swank:set-default-directory) not working with CLISP

[Stas Boukarev]

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Teemu Likonen <tlikonen at iki.fi> wrote:
> It seems that ,cd command from the REPL, which I think runs
> (swank:set-default-directory), does not work correctly with CLISP. It
> works _once_ but after that it doesn't change the directory anymore.
> CLISP's (ext:cd) works as longs as I don't touch REPL's ,cd command
> After that (ext:cd) stops working.
>
> My Slime is up-to-date version from Git mirror and I can see the bug
> with CLISP version 2.44.1 and 2.48.
That's not a slime issue.
Clisp doesn't change cwd when *default-pathname-defaults* is set:

(progn (setf *default-pathname-defaults* #"/")
       (list (cd (user-homedir-pathname)) (cd))) => #"/"

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With best regards, Stas.