[slime-devel] slime-read-system-name

[Edi Weitz]

On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 23:53:07 +0200, Helmut Eller <e9626484 at stud3.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

> Edi Weitz <edi at agharta.de> writes:
>
>> Here's a patch to allow for completion in shortcut operations which
>> deal with ASDF systems. It's sub-optimal because it only checks
>> ASDF's central registry but I don't think it's possible to write a
>> general solution in the presence of
>> ASDF:*SYSTEM-DEFINITION-SEARCH-FUNCTIONS*.
>
> It would be nice if ASDF itself had a function to list all system
> names.  That would save us the pathname wrestling.

I suppose ASDF itself can't do that either because it cannot know what
kind of search functions its users provide.