On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Panagiotis Papasotiriou <
p.j.papasot at gmail.com> wrote:
> It still doesn't work... I can run sbcl with M-x slime, but it complains
> that 'package "ASDF" not found', although cl-asdf is installed. After that,
> if I try to compile a function with C-c C-c, I get an annoying message
> "Polling /tmp/slime.xxxx", which stays there forever. I can load a lisp file
> from repl though.
>
Sorry, I can't help since I don't use slime with sbcl, but when I last tried
it it worked fine. C-u M-x slime sbcl doesn't work for me either, but it
looks like a version mismatch between sbcl and slime.
>
> I have to say it is the first time I see an Emacs mode not working as
> expected, or at least not working out-of-the-box. Furthermore, the idea of
> using a client-server model implemented in slime/swank seems strange to me.
> All that just to compile lisp programs from within Emacs?
How else would you have emacs talk to a different process?
Anyway, this is no longer relevant to maxima.
Ray