[slime-devel] Swank requires :dont-close t to connect

[Helmut Eller]

* Red Daly [2011-08-06 17:14] writes:

> Hi All,
>
> After installing SBCL 1.50 and the most recent CVS version of slime on a
> linux machine (Ubuntu 11.04), I needed to change slime.el in order for M-x
> slime to work within emacs.  I don't know why this was necessary, but I
> changed the slime-init-command function to include a :dont-close t argument
> to the swank:start-server call.

This sounds like the problem here:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.slime.devel/9250

In summary: it should be fixed in recent Emacs versions (patch went into
Emacs24 on 2010-03-25 and backported to Emacs23 in November).

If your Emacs is older than that the :dont-close trick is probably the
easiest fix.

Helmut