new version of slime hanging.

[arvid]

The new version of slime (slime-20130615-cvs) in the latest distribution of quicklisp is hanging on commands like tab (complete symbol, repl)  and M-. find definiton.

I realize this is not the place to complain about slime bugs but I don't have time for that right now.

What I want to know is how to correctly go back to the previous Slime version?

I altered the contents of the file

  dists/quicklisp/installed/systems/swank.txt

from

  dists/quicklisp/software/slime-20130615-cvs/swank.asd

to 

  dists/quicklisp/software/slime-20130420-cvs/swank.asd

Is this ok?

andy peterson

[Zach Beane]

arvid <andy....@gmail.com> writes:

> The new version of slime (slime-20130615-cvs) in the latest distribution of
> quicklisp is hanging on commands like tab (complete symbol, repl) and M-.
> find definiton.
>
> I realize this is not the place to complain about slime bugs but I don't
> have time for that right now.

I can't reproduce - M-. and completion seem to work OK for me on SBCL
1.1.8 with the same version of slime.

>
> What I want to know is how to correctly go back to the previous Slime
> version?
>
> I altered the contents of the file
> dists/quicklisp/installed/systems/swank.txt
> from
> dists/quicklisp/software/slime-20130615-cvs/swank.asd
> to
> dists/quicklisp/software/slime-20130420-cvs/swank.asd
>
>
> Is this ok?

That will get clobbered on the next update. One way to go back is
described here:

http://blog.quicklisp.org/2011/08/going-back-in-dist-time.html

Zach

[arvid]

Thanks for the quick response.

I was using sbcl 1.1.7.  Another computer with same distro/emacs/quicklisp worked fine on 1.1.3 then 1.1.8.

Today, the original computer seems to work with the latest slime and 1.1.8.

Weird though, after updating quicklisp dist., emacs hanged 5 times in a row yesterday.

The ghost of Rod Serling must have been visiting my office yesterday.

andy