[slim-vim] first try, some issues

[Larry Clapp]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 07:31:11AM -0700, Brad Beveridge wrote:
> On 20/07/06, James Fleming <lisp at electronic-quill.net> wrote:
> > > > I changed it to something equally non-portable and was able to
> > > > connect to swank.  My current problem, which still eludes me,
> > > > is that whenever I try to eval a form, I'm told:
> > > > ERROR: No applicable method for VIM:CHANGE-TO-BUFFER
> >
> > > Firstly, welcome aboard.  Have a look in your Vim directory
> > > ./runtime/if_ecl.lisp, the CHANGE-TO-BUFFER function ought to be
> > > in there.  If it isn't, then I suspect you somehow have an old
> > > Vim.
> >
> > At the risk of looking silly yet again, which version should we be
> > using? I'm getting the same problem with version 7.0 with patches
> > 1-35, from the darcs repository at theclapp.org, and
> > CHANGE-TO-BUFFER is definitely defined in if_ecl.lisp.
> >
> > Similarly, ecl-slime is also up-to-date from the darcs repository.
> > I've re-pulled both, rebuilt and re-installed vim70+async+ecl, and
> > that's still consistently the case.
> >
> > Is there a step we've missed?
> >
> Hmm, very strange.  Ok, so the basics - I just pulled into a new dir
> http://theclapp.org/repos/ecl-slime/   (18 patches)
> http://theclapp.org/repos/vim70+async+ecl/ (13 patches)
> it might also be a good idea to pull
> http://theclapp.org/repos/ecl-repl/
> 
> So the first oddity is, where did you get 35 patches from?  The
> older Vim repo looks to potentially have that many - you need to get
> the vim70+async+ecl repo.

He's talking about Vim patches, available from Vim.org.  :ver =>

  VIM - Vi IMproved 7.0 (2006 May 7, compiled Jul 15 2006 11:05:49)
  Included patches: 1-35
                    ^^^^

> In my .vimrc I source ecl-repl, which might possibly be required for
> ECL Slime, but I am pretty sure it is not.
> 
> Larry, any thoughts?

See my other reply to this thread.  It'll require further
troubleshooting.

-- Larry