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The Apropos window in the IDE is not a normal window. Instead it is some sort of palette or tool window. (I'm not sure what the correct term is in Cocoa.) This fact gives it two behaviors that I find annoying: (1) it is always on top, and (2) it disappears when I switch to another application.

I can't at the moment think of cogent arguments for why these behaviors are objectively bad, I just know that I run into them and find myself annoyed by them pretty much every time I use the Apropos window.

(From GB e-mail response to Ron Garret)

All that I can tell is that it's trying to write a warning to the echo area to the effect that it doesn't understand the "Syntax:" file option; I'm not sure that the echo area even exists at this point. (It's dying in the method #/readFromURL:ofType:error: on hemlock-editor-document; this code is running on the event thread, and whatever its notion of "the echo area" is, it probably isn't correct.)

If it's going to try to parse the attribute line and if it's going to do someting other than silently ignore attributes that it doesn't understand, it should probably do that parsing a little later (and, in the current model, it should do that on the right thread.)

On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, Ron Garret wrote:

Correction: It's (apparently) not CFFI. The problem seems to be trying to open a file containing the following modeline:

;;; -*- Mode: LISP; Syntax: ANSI-Common-Lisp; Package: CL-USER; -*-

Trying to open a file with this modeline dumps a whole bunch of error messages to the console and results in a broken Lisp.

Once a process is allowed to run to exhaustion, it never again responds to process-interrupt:

(let ((p (make-process "Test")))

  ;; Let it run through once
  (process-preset p #'(lambda () nil))
  (process-enable p)
  (process-wait "exhaust" #'(lambda () (process-exhausted-p p)))

  ;; Now revive it and try to interrupt it
  (process-preset p #'(lambda () (sleep 10)))
  (process-reset p)
  (process-enable p)
  (sleep 1)
  (let ((test :never))
    (process-interrupt p #'(lambda () (setq test :interrupt)))
    (process-wait "exhaust" #'(lambda () (process-exhausted-p p)))
    test))