I just recently started experiment with SLIME, and found a problem that makes me unsure whether it is something I am doing wrong or if the current snapshot of SLIME is broken.
The problem: trying to change the package (using , !p) always throws an error, regardless of which backend is used.
The error from SBCL looks like this:
The value #("FOO" 0 3 (SWANK-IO-PACKAGE::FACE NIL)) is not of type (OR (VECTOR CHARACTER) (VECTOR NIL) BASE-STRING SYMBOL CHARACTER PACKAGE).
[Condition of type TYPE-ERROR]
CLISP and CCL throw the same error, though worded slightly differently.
I am running on Windows, but the same thing happens when I try it on Linux. I suspect that either there is something I am neglecting to do in my .emacs file, or there is a glitch in the current version of SLIME. I just started using SLIME yesterday, so I have no past experiences to compare it to.
Any ideas?