slime on github

[Paul Bowyer]

On 01/08/2014 07:34 PM, Jeff Cunningham wrote:
>
> On 01/08/2014 04:26 PM, Paul Bowyer wrote:
>> Hello Helmut,
>>
>> I've recently become aware the slime is now on github, so I 
>> downloaded and installed a copy. It ran, but there is a window in my 
>> copy of emacs-23.4.1 filled with warnings related to ert.el which 
>> indicate that it can't be found.
>>
>>  A list of the warnings:
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test symbol-at-point.2
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test symbol-at-point.3
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test symbol-at-point.4
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test symbol-at-point.5
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test symbol-at-point.6
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test symbol-at-point.7
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test symbol-at-point.9
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test symbol-at-point.10
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test symbol-at-point.11
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test symbol-at-point.12
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test symbol-at-point.13
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test symbol-at-point.14
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test symbol-at-point.15
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test symbol-at-point.16
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test sexp-at-point.1
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test narrowing
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test find-definition
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test 
>> (find-definition.2 (:fails-for allegro lispworks))
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test 
>> (find-definition.3 (:fails-for abcl allegro clisp lispworks sbcl ecl))
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test complete-symbol
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test arglist
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test (compile-defun 
>> (:fails-for allegro lispworks clisp ccl))
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test (compile-file 
>> (:fails-for allegro lispworks clisp))
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test utf-8-source
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test async-eval-debugging
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test 
>> unwind-to-previous-sldb-level
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test loop-interrupt-quit
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test 
>> loop-interrupt-continue-interrupt-quit
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test interactive-eval
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test 
>> report-condition-with-circular-list
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test 
>> interrupt-bubbling-idiot
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test 
>> (interrupt-encode-message (:style :sigio))
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test inspector
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test macroexpand
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test indentation
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test break
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test (break2 
>> (:fails-for cmucl allegro ccl))
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test 
>> locally-bound-debugger-hook
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test end-of-file
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test 
>> interrupt-at-toplevel
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test 
>> interrupt-in-debugger
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test flow-control
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test sbcl-world-lock
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test 
>> (disconnect-one-connection (:style :spawn))
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test 
>> disconnect-and-reconnect
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test package-updating
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test repl-test
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test (repl-test-2 
>> (:fails-for allegro))
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test repl-return
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test repl-read
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test repl-read-lines
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test repl-type-ahead
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test 
>> interrupt-in-blocking-read
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test 
>> move-around-and-be-nasty
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test form-up-to-point.1
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test complete-symbol*
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test complete-form
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test font-lock-magic
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test enclosing-context.1
>> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test 
>> find-local-definitions.1
>>
>> I looked around for a copy of ert.el and ert-x.el and I found a 
>> couple of files that looked reasonable, but they won't load so I 
>> wonder if you know how to get those files that are compatible with 
>> emacs-23.4.1?
>>
>> The github copy of slime seems to load OK, but I haven't really tried 
>> using it for development with the warnings I was getting.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Paul Bowyer
>>
>>
> I ran into something similar and it provided the impetus to build 
> emacs 24.3. That fixed everything. So you might just want to upgrade 
> your version of emacs.
>
> Regards,
> --Jeff
>
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Hello Jeff,

I have emacs 24.something available on my distro (Linux Mint 14 w/KDE) 
and I tried it, but there were differences that I didn't want to deal 
with so I went back to emacs-23.4.1 which I was more comfortable using.

Thanks,

Paul Bowyer