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Francis King
Francis King

Reputation: 1732

Portacle Common Lisp connection to Swank Hangs

I have a Portacle installation on Windows 10. Sometimes it works properly, sometimes it doesn't. The problem occurs when Portacle is started and it attempts to connect to Swank. Emacs freezes, and I cannot edit anything in the editing windows (therefore, sorry, I cannot copy the messages to show you). The Emacs editor looks like this:

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That's it. If I make Emacs full screen, the editor window is blank.

Thoughts, please.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 182

Answers (1)

Gwang-Jin Kim
Gwang-Jin Kim

Reputation: 9865

I once wrote this article - and there I explain also how to install Roswell and with the help of Roswell a Common Lisp implementation and connect with emacs/slime. Roswell is definitely to be preferred over Portacle.

If you install first scoop, installing Roswell becomes trivial. (scoop install roswell). https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-set-up-common-lisp-ide-in-2021-5be70d88975b Once, Roswell is installed, you install sbcl easily by ros install sbcl. You can install then several versions of sbcl - but especially all the other Common Lisp implementations, too. And switch between them by ros use command. How to install emacs and slime is explained there, too.

Portacle is bound to sbcl and cannot jump between versions and implementations. Plus Roswell is not buggy like Portacle is.

Upvotes: 1

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