[slime-devel] miscellaneous small additions

[Helmut Eller]

"Sean O'Rourke" <sorourke at cs.ucsd.edu> writes:

> This patch adds a few minor tweaks I found useful:
>   * slime-repl-{clear-buffer,clear-output}: clear the last and
>     entire output in the *slime-repl* buffer
>   * slime-documentation: pop up a buffer with a symbol's
>     documentation instead of its description, if found.
>   * tweak to completion, taken from ilisp, to complete filenames
>     inside strings.
>   * slime-set-default-directory: also set *slime-repl*'s
>     default-directory, so e.g. find-file makes sense.

Nice patches! I've applied them with some minor changes.

[...]
> +  (slime-eval-describe
> +   `(cl:or (swank:documentation-symbol ,symbol-name)
> +	   (swank:describe-symbol ,symbol-name))))

By convention, we call only exported functions from the swank
package.  I changed swank:documentation-symbol a bit to make it more
useful if the symbol is not documented.

Helmut.