On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 7:05 PM, levand <luke.vanderh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I must say, this is absolutely the first thing I've found about
> Clojure that is difficult or cumbersome - I've been more than pleased
> with how easy everything else has been. I'm a new to Emacs+Slime, and
> their learning curve has been the most difficult part, but so far I've
> overcome everything.
>
> However, I just started writing some more serious code, and am running
> into a problem. I am using Swing, and, those of you who know anything
> about Swing will know that most events are processed in a special
> thread, the Swing event thread.
>
> Well, I'm working in Emacs+Slime, and it appears that it is completely
> deaf to anything except what happens in the main Clojure REPL thread.
> A good portion of my code is executing in the swing thread, and when
> an exception occurs there, there is no clue in Emacs regarding what
> has taken place - it took me a while to figure out that there even was
> an exception. I have to create an explicit try/catch block, and even
> then, neither clojure *out* nor Java's System.out seem to be visible
> to my environment. I have no idea where System.out is directed to, and
> Clojure's *out* only seems to work for the REPL thread. In order to
> see what happens, I have to create some other side effect in the file
> system or in Swing.
>
> Now, I could just pull in a logging framework of some kind and tail
> the logs. But a lot of the joy Clojure has brought me, so far, has
> been that I can just hack around in the REPL and add that stuff as
> needed - it's a lot of work, just to see what's going on.
>
> So I guess my question is... is there any easy way to see System.out
> or System.err from my Slime environment? I don't mind catching the
> exceptions in my code, but I need some way to to /see/ them without
> dragging in a bunch of logging crap. Even Eclipse has a "console" that
> tracks System.out that you can print to from any thread... that sort
> of thing is a fairly basic requirement for debugging. Without it, I'm
> reduced to guesswork.
Add the following to your .emacs file:
(add-hook 'slime-connected-hook (lambda ()
(interactive)
(slime-redirect-inferior-output)))
- Bill
--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"Clojure" group.
To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
