[slime-devel] Re: newbie questions related to sldb

[Luke Gorrie]

Sundar Narasimhan <sundar at itasoftware.com> writes:

> First of, thanks to everyone working on this -- slime seems great.

Thanks!

> Simple question: when the sldb window pops up -- and I type e -- or
> other evaluation related functions, the interactions occur in the
> minibuffer -- which doesn't work well for me for forms/results that
> extend over multiple lines. What's the accepted wisdom wrt. what one
> could do here?

I can think of a few related points, I don't know if any is what
you're after -

  You can use `C-u :' and (now) `C-u e' to have the evaluation result
  printed into the REPL buffer instead of displayed in a message.

  You can use `M-x slime-ensure-typeout-frame' to create a new small
  frame for displaying the messages with instead of the echo area.
  (When you close the frame it'll go back to using the echo area.)

  You can actually use the REPL even while debugging an error from an
  REPL evaluation. This useful but seedy feature is because the REPL
  is really based on RPCs rather than streams.

We've had requests for a feature to open a new REPL from the SLDB
buffer but we're currently resisting creeping features.

> Second, when I type 't' -- sometimes the top frame disappears in sldb -- 
> and my cursor is left at  the next frame.. is this a bug? (I'm using
> cmucl on FC2 via xemacs).

Thanks for the report. It looks like Helmut's fixed this now.

-Luke