[cmucl-help] -edit and -slave switch options vital for Hemlock

[Raymond Toy]

On 8/31/23 1:17 PM, Peri Didaskalou wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> Pardon my ignorance, mainly due to my not being interested in making 
> use of Hemlock until now; but, was the first, pre-snapshots version of 
> 21d,
> as per the cmucl-user manual of Dec.2018, the last version of cmucl 
> which still had the -edit and -slave switch options?
>
> Hemlock also looks for the binary 'cmucl' for compilation.  At first, 
> I thought I was on my way, when I created a 'cmucl' copy of the 'lisp' 
> binary in /bin.
> Of course, that was only the superficial issue.  CMUCL hasn't had 
> these two switches, -edit and -slave, for a few years, it seems.

Sorry for the delay!

You’re right. I’m not a Hemlock user, but the Hemlock user manual 
<https://cmucl.org/docs/hem/user/hemlock-user.html#edit_002dswitch> says 
-edit and -slave should exist.

However, I tried 18c (the oldest that will run on my computers), and 
|lisp file.txt -edit| doesn’t recognize the -edit option. In fact, the 
only recognized options are -quiet, -load, and -eval.

I’m not sure exactly what these switches are really supposed to do; I’ve 
only tried running hemlock via |(ed)| after starting lisp.

>
> Peri
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