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. Many thanks, -Luke --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
