[slime-devel] Re: Users!

[Camille Troillard]

Hi,


I am not an expert of Ilisp nor Slime, but isn't it possible to make a 
completion command like "m<tab>" which works like the completion in the 
mini-buffer of Emacs.

It seems a very good idea to complete filenames, though difficult to 
port.

Isn't it possible to complete symbols against the result of an apropos 
funcall ?
It would make the completion feature very useful and could be enhanced 
to automatically insert not unused packages like this:

For example, if I want to write start-server which is in package 
ASERVE-EXAMPLE (which must be loaded) but my file doesn't use package 
ASERVE-EXAMPLE for some reasons.  If I would write :

		- "s<tab>" then a specific Emacs buffer would appear with the list of 
all symbols beginning by "s" in any packages.  For instance we should 
have something like :

		               SYMBOL-VALUE
		ASERVE-EXAMPLE:START-SERVER

		- then if I would type "y<tab" the symbol would complete to 
"SYMBOL-VALUE".
		- then if I would type "t<tab" the symbol would complete to 
"ASERVE-EXAMPLE:START-SERVER".


If find very annoying a Lisp environnement than can't complete symbol 
that the lisp knows.
As I am not very good at lisp (still beginner !) I don't know if this 
is easy of difficult to write, but I suppose a quick-and-dirty hack 
would be easy by parsing the apropos funcall ...



Cheers,
Camille



On Nov 26, 2003, at 5:52 PM, Luke Gorrie wrote:

> "Sean O'Rourke" <sorourke at cs.ucsd.edu> writes:
>
>> I switched to Slime for awhile, but switched back to Ilisp for the
>> moment for two reasons:
>>
>> - stability.  This is probably a red herring, since you can evidently
>>   just leave a Lisp up and running and reconnect after a crash; it's
>>   also transient, since Slime is improving by leaps and bounds
>>   (infinitely faster than Ilisp, one might say;).
>
> I hadn't realised we had stability-as-in-crash problems. We'll fix
> them.
>
>> - Usability details.  The big one here is completion -- Ilisp has a
>>   couple of completion features that Slime lacks: filename completion
>>   in strings, and multiword expansion (e.g. "m-w-e<tab>" ->
>>   "multi-word-expansion").  Is there any reason not to pillage Ilisp
>>   for these nice touches?
>
> Pillaging ideas, definitely. Pillaging code hasn't been a big success
> so far. In the cases I've tried, the ILISP code was really showing its
> age (way) too much.
>
> Today might be an exception. I spent quite some time implementing a
> "m-w-e<tab>" feature, but the algorithm I cooked up turned out to
> completely suck, and it isn't useful. Bugger. :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Luke
>
>
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