[slime-devel] What should `M-x slime' do?

[Andras Simon]

On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Luke Gorrie wrote:

>
> Ahoyhoy,
>
> A few times I've sat down to "fix" the behaviour of `M-x slime' and
> `M-x slime-connect' as regards multiple connections but I always give
> up and can't decide what they should do.
>
> Here are some cases:
>
>   M-x slime, no prefix argument, already connected:
>     Close all connections, but don't kill any inferior-lisps.
>     If *inferior-lisp* exists then connect to that Lisp, otherwise
>     start a new one and connect.
>
>   .. or with prefix arg:
>     Ask if we should create an additional connection.
>     If yes, create a new *inferior-lisp* and connect.
>     If no, do as above.
>
>   M-x slime-connect, no prefix argument, already connected:
>     Close all existing connections and then make the new one.
>
>   .. or with prefix arg:
>     Ask if we should close existing connections first.
>     If yes, do as above.
>     If no, keep existing connections and create a new one.

This sounds reasonable.

> Now that the protocol is robust I don't think you'd want `M-x slime'
> to reconnect to the current *inferior-lisp*, so maybe it should create

Evidently, you're not using abcl :-)

> an additional connection? And what about slime-connect?
>
> There's also the question of how we should recycle REPL buffers. I
> don't know if anyone has strong opinions on that.

Just don't dump them!

Andras