title: Emacs slime mini buffer take-over
body: <p>For no obvious reason firing up slime in Emacs produces this message in the mini buffer:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Polling "/tmp/slime.5000 .. 25 (Abort with `M-x
    slime-abort-connection'.) [730 times]</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>That [730 times] keeps growing. Supposedly, this means slime had trouble starting, but no, it's working fine. </p>
  
  <p>Here's my Messages buffer starting with slime initialization:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>../../quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/slime-20130217-cvs/contrib/slime-package-fu.el:
    <code>flet' is an obsolete macro (as of 24.3); use either</code>cl-flet' or
    <code>cl-letf'. [4 times] Starting Emacs daemon. When done with this frame,
    type C-x 5 0 Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 1 (Abort with</code>M-x
    slime-abort-connection'.) Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 2 (Abort with
    <code>M-x slime-abort-connection'.) Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 3 (Abort
    with</code>M-x slime-abort-connection'.) Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 4
    (Abort with <code>M-x slime-abort-connection'.) Polling "/tmp/slime.5080"
    .. 5 (Abort with</code>M-x slime-abort-connection'.) Polling
    "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 6 (Abort with <code>M-x slime-abort-connection'.)
    Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 7 (Abort with</code>M-x
    slime-abort-connection'.) Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 8 (Abort with
    <code>M-x slime-abort-connection'.) Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 9 (Abort
    with</code>M-x slime-abort-connection'.) Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 10
    (Abort with <code>M-x slime-abort-connection'.) Polling "/tmp/slime.5080"
    .. 11 (Abort with</code>M-x slime-abort-connection'.) Polling
    "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 12 (Abort with <code>M-x slime-abort-connection'.)
    Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 13 (Abort with</code>M-x
    slime-abort-connection'.) Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 14 (Abort with
    <code>M-x slime-abort-connection'.) Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 15 (Abort
    with</code>M-x slime-abort-connection'.) Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 16
    (Abort with <code>M-x slime-abort-connection'.) Polling "/tmp/slime.5080"
    .. 17 (Abort with</code>M-x slime-abort-connection'.) Polling
    "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 18 (Abort with <code>M-x slime-abort-connection'.)
    Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 19 (Abort with</code>M-x
    slime-abort-connection'.) Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 20 (Abort with
    <code>M-x slime-abort-connection'.) Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 21 (Abort
    with</code>M-x slime-abort-connection'.) Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 22
    (Abort with <code>M-x slime-abort-connection'.) Polling "/tmp/slime.5080"
    .. 23 (Abort with</code>M-x slime-abort-connection'.) Polling
    "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 24 (Abort with <code>M-x slime-abort-connection'.)
    Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 25 (Abort with</code>M-x
    slime-abort-connection'.) Connecting to Swank on port 39808.. Polling
    "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 25 (Abort with <code>M-x slime-abort-connection'.) [2
    times] Source file
    </code>/home/lawrence/.emacs.d/elpa/clojure-mode-1.11.5/clojure-mode.el'
    newer than byte-compiled file Connected. Let the hacking commence!
    Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 25 (Abort with <code>M-x
    slime-abort-connection'.) [297 times] Mark set Polling
    "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 25 (Abort with</code>M-x slime-abort-connection'.)
    [207 times] Mark saved where search started Polling "/tmp/slime.5080"
    .. 25 (Abort with <code>M-x slime-abort-connection'.) [58 times] Cancelled
    connection attempt. Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 25 (Abort with</code>M-x
    slime-abort-connection'.) [1159 times] byte-code: Beginning of buffer
    Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 25 (Abort with <code>M-x
    slime-abort-connection'.) [2 times] byte-code: Beginning of buffer [2
    times] Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 25 (Abort with</code>M-x
    slime-abort-connection'.) [2 times] byte-code: Beginning of buffer
    Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 25 (Abort with <code>M-x
    slime-abort-connection'.) byte-code: Beginning of buffer Polling
    "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 25 (Abort with</code>M-x slime-abort-connection'.)
    [202 times]</p>
  </blockquote>