On 2013-01-12 17:43 +0800, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I downloaded the current snapshot of slime from
> http://common-lisp.net/project/slime/.  Is this the package you are
> talking about?  The only *.el file that calls animate-string there is
> slime-banner.el:
>
>   (defun slime-startup-message ()
>     (when slime-header-line-p
>       (setq header-line-format 
> 	    (format "%s  Port: %s  Pid: %s"
> 		    (slime-lisp-implementation-type)
> 		    (slime-connection-port (slime-connection))
> 		    (slime-pid))))
>     (when (zerop (buffer-size))
>       (let ((welcome (concat "; SLIME " (or (slime-changelog-date) 
> 					    "- ChangeLog file not found"))))
> 	(if slime-startup-animation
> 	    (animate-string welcome 0 0) 
> 	  (insert welcome)))))
>
> Is this the code that produced the redisplay error messages?  If so, I
> cannot reproduce this on my machine.  If this isn't the code in
> question, then please show a minimal code snippet using animate-string
> that does reproduce the problem.  (It isn't right to let me guess like
> this, if you want the problem solved any time soon.)

Thanks for taking the trouble to investigate the issue further. I have
just spent an hour to come up with this reproduction recipe.

1. Install adaptive-wrap.el from ELPA
2. Install sbcl or clisp or any CL supported by slime
1. Emacs -q -l t.el (t.el assumes sbcl, which you may want to change)
2. M-x slime

My whole *Messages* buffer looks like this:

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For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
`flet' is an obsolete macro (as of 24.3); use either `cl-flet' or `cl-letf'. [11 times]
Polling "/var/folders/mf/8_qnj_n146d0wxb32wdnb9jh0000gn/T/slime.13675" .. 1 (Abort with `M-x slime-abort-connection'.)
Polling "/var/folders/mf/8_qnj_n146d0wxb32wdnb9jh0000gn/T/slime.13675" .. 2 (Abort with `M-x slime-abort-connection'.)
Polling "/var/folders/mf/8_qnj_n146d0wxb32wdnb9jh0000gn/T/slime.13675" .. 3 (Abort with `M-x slime-abort-connection'.)
Polling "/var/folders/mf/8_qnj_n146d0wxb32wdnb9jh0000gn/T/slime.13675" .. 4 (Abort with `M-x slime-abort-connection'.)
Connecting to Swank on port 60501..
Error during redisplay: (jit-lock-function 1) signaled (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
Error during redisplay: (jit-lock-function 520) signaled (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
Error during redisplay: (jit-lock-function 1) signaled (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) [2 times]
Connected. Let the hacking commence!
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