<span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hi All,<div><br></div><div>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.</div>

<div><br></div><div>Here is my .emacs:</div><div><br></div><div><div>;;;; SLIME                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  </div>

<div>(add-to-list 'load-path "~/lib/cl/slime/")  ; your SLIME directory                                                                                                                                                                          </div>

<div>(setq inferior-lisp-program "sbcl") ; your Lisp system                                                                                                                                                                                      </div>

<div>(setq slime-net-coding-system 'utf-8-unix)</div><div>(require 'slime)</div><div>(slime-setup '(slime-repl slime-fancy))</div></div><div><br></div><div>I'm not sure if this is a bug or not, but perhaps you all should know.</div>

<div><br></div><div>Without the :dont-close argument, I get an error in emacs:  <span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande';font-size:11px"><span><a style="color:rgb(0, 101, 204)">swank:close-connection</a></span>: end of file on #<<a style="color:rgb(0, 101, 204)"><span>SB-SYS:FD-STREAM</span></a> for "socket <a href="http://127.0.0.1:58634/" style="color:rgb(0, 101, 204)" target="_blank">127.0.0.1:58634</a>, peer: <a href="http://127.0.0.1:53495/" style="color:rgb(0, 101, 204)" target="_blank">127.0.0.1:53495</a>" {100467B0C1}></span></div>

<div><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande';font-size:11px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande';font-size:11px">Thanks,</span></div><div><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande';font-size:11px">Red</span></div>

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