[Slime-devel] slime 2.4 with emacs 24.3.50: Loading problems after M-x slime

[Zach Beane]

joaotavora at gmail.com (João Távora) writes:

> Sian Mountbatten <poenikatu at fastmail.co.uk> writes:
>
>> Hello.
>>
>> I'm using Debian GNU/Linux (jessie) on amd64 architecture.
>>
>> Usually, I do not have any problems with starting slime, but, now,
>> whenever I issue the command "M-x slime" in Emacs, I get lots of
>> STYLE-WARNING messages from sbcl showing redefinitions of swank
>> functions, followed by "Polling" messages suggesting that I issue the
>> command "M-x slime-abort-connection".
>>
>> I have uploaded the part of my ~/.emacs.d/init.el file concerning the
>> Slime connection to http://paste.lisp.org/+31M2.
>
> This is really not enough to investigate your problem since I don't know
> what you have"/opt/ql/slime-helper.el" and I also don't know what kind
> of code you have compiled in your /opt/sbcl/lib/sbcl/sbcl.slime-core
> file
>
> Can you paste slime-helper.el if it's not too big of a file?

For reference, slime-helper.el is part of quicklisp-slime-helper. It
sets up emacs to point to the version of slime that is installed by
Quicklisp. It looks like this:

  https://github.com/quicklisp/quicklisp-slime-helper/blob/master/slime-helper-template.el

Zach