[editor-hints-devel] Re: Initial message to create gmane.lisp.editors.hints.devel group.

[Tobias C. Rittweiler]

"Tobias C. Rittweiler" <tcr at freebits.de> writes:

> Editor-hints is supposed to become an interface between the language
> Common Lisp and Lisp development environments.

I call this project to be successfull if its integration into Slime
makes it popular enough to become a standard requirement of future
Open Source Lisp projects. At least this is what I strive for.

I hope that such popularity will make it rise on the radars of
commercial Lisp environments.


> Its current TODO list looks as follows:
>
> ...
>
> * Indentation:
>
>   Add a facility to specify how symbols are supposed to be indented.
>   I.e. something like a DECLAIM-INDENTATION (being based upon a
>   PROCLAIM-INDENTATION function) which store indentation information
>   in some retrievable way. So that editors can rely on that
>   information from a running Lisp image.
>
>   This requires some research about the indentation specification
>   schemes that different Lisp systems (Lisp machines, Symbolics'
>   Genera, GNU Emacs, Lispworks, AllegroCL) use. And then define
>   a practical denominator.

Are you still interested in working on that, Michael?

  -T.