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[73budden .]

I see my previous reply was unclear

>It looks like what you are building is an
>extension to ASDF

not an extension but a patch

>that hooks it into an editor

yes

>(perhaps specifically the
>lispworks IDE?).

No. I use lispworks IDE for Lispworks and EMACS (via SWANK callback)
for SBCL. EMACS/SWANK should work with all lisps supported by SLIME.