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From: phs@lifia.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: lisp-send-defun in GNU Emacs' Lisp mode
Message-ID: <1739@lifia.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Feb-87 10:39:32 EST
Article-I.D.: lifia.1739
Posted: Tue Feb 24 10:39:32 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Feb-87 23:16:47 EST
Reply-To: phs@lifia.UUCP (Philippe Schnoebelen)
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Organization: LIFIA-IMAG Un. of Grenoble, France
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  When I am editing a Lisp file with  GNU emacs,  while a  Lisp interpreter is
running (actually just waiting for input) in another  buffer, I sometimes have
problems with the lisp-send-defun function,  which should  send the  currently
edited "defun" block to the Lisp interpreter,  taking the new  definition into
account.  What I get is a message 

         "writing to process: operation would block, lisp"

and the Lisp interpreter is  really blocked (I have   to send it a  Ctrl-C  to
revive it). This happens more frequently with "big" functions (maybe about  10
lines, that ain't so big).

What is happening ? Is there some way around it ?

Thanks
--
Philippe SCHNOEBELEN,
LIFIA - IMAG,  BP 68                           UUCP : ...mcvax!imag!lifia!phs
38402 Saint Martin d'Heres, FRANCE

"Algebraic symbols are used when you do not know what you are talking about."