[slime-devel] Slime feature requests

[Brian Mastenbrook]

Hello fellow hackers,

I've been using slime for some time now, and I /really/ like it. It 
feels much more integrated than ilisp, and has several nice advantages. 
I like the ability to run my lisp independently of emacs - that way 
when emacs goes down (I'm using emacs CVS, and it does happen from time 
to time) my session isn't lost, and I can also logout/login without 
disrupting my lisp session. It seems that a few weeks back, SLIME 
switched to using a file to communicate the port that swank would be 
listening on, and swank:start-server started taking this as a required 
argument. Can I request that swank:start-server go back to not 
requiring an argument and starting the server on the default port - and 
possibly allow the choice of another port somehow? It might also be 
nice to include a simple swank .asd file like the one I've attached to 
make it easier to start the swank server in a fresh lisp.

I've also noticed that SLIME seems to like to pop up the REPL in the 
current frame when sending definitions via C-M-x, and resize it if it's 
already active. I like keeping the REPL in another window, and would 
request that SLIME not touch or rearrange anything unless the slime 
repl is not visible.

Lastly, it seems that slime prints its results from the CL-USER 
package, regarldess of the user's current package in the REPL. Since it 
obviously knows the current package well enough to include it in the 
REPL prompt, would it be possible to make it print output from that 
package?

Thanks!

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Brian Mastenbrook
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