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:) Cool. Of course, if you try this on Windows you get the following: [...] * (read-line (sb-ext:process-output proc)) "Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] NIL * (read-line (sb-ext:process-output proc)) "(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. NIL * (read-line (sb-ext:process-output pr...

I would have thought you would want :output :stream rather than :pty t.

From what I can read to be able to create windows and such I will have somehow to use cffi to call the WinAPI? Have a look at Graphic-Forms . I haven't used it, but it seems to be what you're looking for. Of course, the web site also says: Graphic-Forms is in the alpha stage of development, meaning...

Don't let me stop you, but others have already worked on this :) e.g.: http://www.lichteblau.com/blubba/shortcut/asdf.lisp and some other posibilities: http://bc.tech.coop/blog/041113.html and related stuff here: http://brainrack.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/symlinks-under-windows-using-sbcl-truename-as...

tayssir wrote:I still wonder how he (apparently) learned about DECLARE SPECIAL before LET -- it's like he'd manually add new variables to all the DECLARE SPECIAL declarations whenever he'd need a new one.

Maybe he was reading through the CLHS index and DECLARE comes before LET? ;)

haha

Reminds me of "The Scream"
(e.g. http://colombianflowers.files.wordpress ... scream.jpg)

I tried deleting the slime directory and checking it out again, but I got the same result. Oh well, then I don't know what the problem is. Do you think there would be a way to get an earlier version of SLIME to see if that would work? Yes, in the directory that you checked out slime to, do somethin...

This looks suspicious: compilation aborted because of fatal error: READ failure in COMPILE-FILE: READER-ERROR at 19070 (line 515, column 70) on #<FILE-STREAM for "file \"/home/tss/slime/swank-sbcl.lisp\"" {9B\ 56A49}>: Symbol "FIND-DEFINITION-SOURCES-BY-NAME" not found ...

JamesF wrote:Wodin: thanks! That's exactly what I needed.

Glad I could help

I think you're getting tripped up by the fact that a character can be represented in various different ways (using a different number of bytes per character depending on the representation). What happens if you have a text stream made up of characters where the underlying data is in two bytes per ch...