[slime-devel] Re: slime repl commands

[Sean O'Rourke]

Marco Baringer <mb at bese.it> writes:
> [...]
> When you are at the start of the repl there is a special character (by
> default #\,) which begins a repl command.

If you haven't used it, allout.el has something similar for outline
navigation -- when you're on a topic marker, you can navigate with
the keys 'f', 'b', etc.

> 1) its really different from the "obvious" definition of a repl command.

Slime already ain't yo mama's REPL -- it might as well take full
advantage of having an Emacs around.

> 2) it doesn't show up in the repl history or buffer anymore (though
>    this could be changed into something similar to CLIM's Listener).

But we could give it an Emacs history ring.

> Given how trivial this is to implement i could just do it and we could
> try it out and see if it works or not.
>
> comments?

I have to admit, my first response on reading about using REPL
commands with "," was "what's wrong with \M-x?", so I think this is
an unmitigated good.

/s