From: globalrev
Subject: Lispbox and multithreading?
Date: 
Message-ID: <11d074fc-6618-4234-8d6c-b00b58862022@b64g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>
ok i cant get slime going so installed Lispbox instead which is slime
in emacs running independently.

buut when i run it i get the REPL but no editwindow. i tried to do
this:
http://common-lisp.net/project/slime/doc/html/Multithreading.html#Multithreading

but it didnt work.

using lispbox, how do i create another thread so i can write ina
buffert and test in the toplevel and have both running at the same
time? inside the same emacswindow? an somehow run functions from a
thread directly into the toplevel without copy-paste?


right now i run emacs and lispbox side-by-side and that works ofc but
i prefer it all in one emacswindow.
From: Alex Mizrahi
Subject: Re: Lispbox and multithreading?
Date: 
Message-ID: <48159506$0$90269$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>
 g> using lispbox, how do i create another thread so i can write ina
 g> buffert and test in the toplevel and have both running at the same
 g> time?

REPL and buffer can share single connection, without any threads or 
whatever.
or do you want to work with lisp in buffer _while_ you're running some 
lengthy computations in REPL?
or having multiple REPLs?

 g> an somehow run functions from a thread
 g> directly into the toplevel without copy-paste?

what do you mean by "thread" here?

 g> right now i run emacs and lispbox side-by-side

i thought lispbox IS emacs, so you run two emacses?
what does that buy you??

...

if you _really_ need multithreading (it looks more like you've just lost in 
terminology), you should get a lisp implementation that supports it -- afair 
SBCL does not support multithreading under Windows.
i guess commercial implementation like Lispworks or Allegro will be best for 
you -- they have free versions for personal use, they support multithreading 
(to some extent), and they are less confusing than Emacs.

alternatively you can try ABCL.