technomancy/swank-clojure — Issue #72: clojure-jack-in might have problems under Win
Author: ath
Created: 2011-10-20 16:14:36+00:00
State: open

On a Windows Server 2003 I set the environment variable %HOME% to C:\Documents and Settings\at
I downloaded a fresh Emacs Starter Kit and unpacked it into
C:\Documents and Settings\at\\.emacs.d and added a init.el, as described in the readme.
Then I installed clojure-mode and in the shell I did a lein plugin install swank-clojure 1.3.3

Now I open my project.clj in Emacs and do a M-x clojure-jack-in but get the following error messages:

Starting swank server...
error in process filter: byte-compile-file: Opening input file: no such file or directory, c:/Documents and Settings^Gt/.emacs.d/swank/slime-cdf283b4.el
error in process filter: Opening input file: no such file or directory, c:/Documents and Settings^Gt/.emacs.d/swank/slime-cdf283b4.el

It seems to me that there might be a bug when constructing the path to the home dir, so that a Control+G gets inserted.
One idea was, but that could be totally wrong, that it has to do with the \a in my home path that translates into an alarm or something like that. The t after the ^G looks good to me. The file that is needs to be read exists, under the nearly correct path:
c:/Documents and Settings/at/.emacs.d/swank/slime-cdf283b4.el

Any ideas?