[slime-devel] package names in the buffer

[Marco Baringer]

here's the problem: i name my package following the "javaish" dotted
dns name convention, and i tend to use it a lot, so i have packages
with names like: it.bese.spider.simei and
it.bese.arnesi.web.web-walk. Anyway, the point is that I have packages
with long names, yet all these packages have foirly short nicknames
and i'd rather have the repl show me not the full package name but the
shortest nickname for the current package.

My first attempt was to just change slime-lisp-package to make a call
to (slime-eval `(swank:shortest-package-nickname ,slime-lisp-package))
but this keeps giving me errors about the marker not pointing
anywhere. So if i wanted to provide a slime option which shomed
package names as their shortest nick name and not their real name,
where should i go about pokeing my fingers? or what don't i understand
about how slime-eval interacts with the relp buffer?

-- 
-Marco
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