* [babel] common lisp / slime evaluation in org-mode
@ 2011-02-09 17:30 Erik Iverson
2011-02-09 18:54 ` Erik Iverson
2011-02-10 1:18 ` Eric Schulte
0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Erik Iverson @ 2011-02-09 17:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode, dto
Hello,
I have started playing around with SLIME and was pleased to find there
was already some support in org-mode for evaluating Common LISP
blocks. The comments in ob-lisp.el makes it clear that it is not
complete support yet. It appears for example that you can only
evaluate one lisp form per code block. Here is an example.
* First, let's try in emacs lisp
The following works how I would expect. The value in the results block
is the value of the last expression in the code block.
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(defvar test1 "test1 value")
(defvar test2 "test2 value")
test2
#+end_src
#+results:
: test2 value
* Now, let's try common lisp
First, we need to start up a SLIME session, with M-x slime. This
assumes you have SLIME set up correctly. I am using SBCL as my CL
environment in this example.
#+begin_src lisp :session
(defvar test1 "test1 value")
(defvar test2 "test2 value")
test2
#+end_src
#+results:
: TEST1
You see the result in the buffer is the value of the first form, and
if I go into the inferior-lisp buffer, test2 is not bound to any
value. If I evaluate the CL code block above without the :session
argument, I get an error in the *Org-Babel Error Output* buffer.
Looking at the code in ob-lisp.el, I think I see why this is
happening, but don't know enough about SLIME yet to make it work. It
seems that line that calls =eval-slime= would need to be changed to
=eval-slime-buffer= after dumping the code block into a temporary
buffer. However, that didn't quite work since that function
(=slime-eval-buffer=) doesn't appear to actually return the final
value.
So, I write this in case this is an easy fix for someone with more
knowledge of SLIME, and to confirm that this is indeed the current
behavior that others see. I will continue to investigate a solution.
Thanks,
--Erik
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* Re: [babel] common lisp / slime evaluation in org-mode
2011-02-09 17:30 [babel] common lisp / slime evaluation in org-mode Erik Iverson
@ 2011-02-09 18:54 ` Erik Iverson
2011-02-10 1:18 ` Eric Schulte
1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Erik Iverson @ 2011-02-09 18:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode, dto
<snip>
> Looking at the code in ob-lisp.el, I think I see why this is
> happening, but don't know enough about SLIME yet to make it work. It
> seems that line that calls =eval-slime= would need to be changed to
> =eval-slime-buffer= after dumping the code block into a temporary
> buffer. However, that didn't quite work since that function
> (=slime-eval-buffer=) doesn't appear to actually return the final
> value.
I of course meant slime-eval and slime-eval-buffer above...
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* Re: [babel] common lisp / slime evaluation in org-mode
2011-02-09 17:30 [babel] common lisp / slime evaluation in org-mode Erik Iverson
2011-02-09 18:54 ` Erik Iverson
@ 2011-02-10 1:18 ` Eric Schulte
2011-02-10 1:49 ` Erik Iverson
1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Eric Schulte @ 2011-02-10 1:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Erik Iverson; +Cc: dto, emacs-orgmode
Hi Erik,
I've been switching from Clojure to Common Lisp myself, and have also
found that there are some issues with ob-lisp.el (although I've been too
busy recently to look closely at them).
ob-clojure.el works well, and uses slime for code evaluation -- and it
has a simpler setup than ob-lisp -- so maybe it would be possible to
port the code in ob-clojure over to common lisp?
I'll be happy to help get ob-lisp.el into shape once I have a free
moment...
Cheers -- Eric
Erik Iverson <eriki@ccbr.umn.edu> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I have started playing around with SLIME and was pleased to find there
> was already some support in org-mode for evaluating Common LISP
> blocks. The comments in ob-lisp.el makes it clear that it is not
> complete support yet. It appears for example that you can only
> evaluate one lisp form per code block. Here is an example.
>
> * First, let's try in emacs lisp
>
> The following works how I would expect. The value in the results block
> is the value of the last expression in the code block.
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>
> (defvar test1 "test1 value")
> (defvar test2 "test2 value")
> test2
>
> #+end_src
>
> #+results:
> : test2 value
>
> * Now, let's try common lisp
>
> First, we need to start up a SLIME session, with M-x slime. This
> assumes you have SLIME set up correctly. I am using SBCL as my CL
> environment in this example.
>
> #+begin_src lisp :session
>
> (defvar test1 "test1 value")
> (defvar test2 "test2 value")
> test2
>
> #+end_src
>
> #+results:
> : TEST1
>
> You see the result in the buffer is the value of the first form, and
> if I go into the inferior-lisp buffer, test2 is not bound to any
> value. If I evaluate the CL code block above without the :session
> argument, I get an error in the *Org-Babel Error Output* buffer.
>
> Looking at the code in ob-lisp.el, I think I see why this is
> happening, but don't know enough about SLIME yet to make it work. It
> seems that line that calls =eval-slime= would need to be changed to
> =eval-slime-buffer= after dumping the code block into a temporary
> buffer. However, that didn't quite work since that function
> (=slime-eval-buffer=) doesn't appear to actually return the final
> value.
>
> So, I write this in case this is an easy fix for someone with more
> knowledge of SLIME, and to confirm that this is indeed the current
> behavior that others see. I will continue to investigate a solution.
>
> Thanks,
> --Erik
>
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* Re: [babel] common lisp / slime evaluation in org-mode
2011-02-10 1:18 ` Eric Schulte
@ 2011-02-10 1:49 ` Erik Iverson
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Erik Iverson @ 2011-02-10 1:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eric Schulte; +Cc: dto, emacs-orgmode
On 02/09/2011 07:18 PM, Eric Schulte wrote:
> Hi Erik,
>
> I've been switching from Clojure to Common Lisp myself, and have also
> found that there are some issues with ob-lisp.el (although I've been too
> busy recently to look closely at them).
>
> ob-clojure.el works well, and uses slime for code evaluation -- and it
> has a simpler setup than ob-lisp -- so maybe it would be possible to
> port the code in ob-clojure over to common lisp?
>
> I'll be happy to help get ob-lisp.el into shape once I have a free
> moment...
Great, in the mean time, I'll definitely take a stab at it and submit
a patch if I fix my issue. Thanks for the tip!
--Erik
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