[slime-devel] Re: Backup tags handling for M-.

[Luke Gorrie]

Dave Roberts <ldave at droberts.com> writes:

> I was using Emacs to do some Lisp code browsing the other day. Along the
> way, I was trying to jump around to some definitions. I tried using M-.
> but the code had not been compiled or loaded into the inferior Lisp
> process. As a result, SLIME complained that it didn't know about the
> defun I was looking for. I turned off SLIME mode and generated a tags
> file using standard emacs. Using standard emacs Lisp-mode, I was able to
> browse the definitions using the tags file.
>
> So, the question is, is it possible for SLIME to fall back to using the
> tags file like emacs Lisp-mode when it's standard behavior fails?

Certainly this is possible, but why not compile/load the module that
you're browsing instead?

Otherwise (define-key slime-mode-map "\M-." 'find-tag) would rebind
M-. to use TAGS in slime-mode. The original bindings can then by
restored with (load "slime").

-Luke