Bug in the XEMACS inferior-lisp mode
Antti J Ylikoski
I'm running XEMACS Version 21.5.29, which is a beta version (so that
bugs are to be expected.)
I have an HP laptop PC with Windows 7; an AMD 2-core 64-bit 2.3GHz
processor with 4GB of RAM and 500GB of hard disk. (It's an excellent
machine.....) I understand that the XEMACS is running under an Linux
emulator program (was it mingcw, or what...... Sorry.)
I attempted to run the inferior-lisp mode with the M-x run-lisp command.
There is one bug there. When I attempt to execute the
C-c C-l command (load file into inferior lisp), the XEMACS gives the
filename to the inferior lisp without backslashes.
So if I give the command the file name C:\yaq83\yaq83.lsp, the XEMACS
gives the inferior lisp the file name C:yaq83yaq83.lsp, without
backslashes, and the LISP gives an error message.
I have tried the SBCL and the GNU CLISP. The same error occurs with the
both of them so I think it is not a problem with the inferior LISP.
kind regards, Antti J Ylikoski
Helsinki, Finland, the E.U.
Henry S. Thompson
> C-c C-l command (load file into inferior lisp), the XEMACS gives the
> filename to the inferior lisp without backslashes.
>
> So if I give the command the file name C:\yaq83\yaq83.lsp, the XEMACS
> gives the inferior lisp the file name C:yaq83yaq83.lsp, without
> backslashes, and the LISP gives an error message.
There does indeed seem to be a bug, but you can beeat it by
escaping your backslashes. I.e. you need to type
C:\\yaq83\\yaq83.lsp
when prompted.
The fact that this is a bug is clear from the fact that if you invoke
the function directly you have to double-escape, i.e.
(lisp-load-file "C:\\\\yaq83\\\\yaq83.lsp")
ht
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