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

[Sundar Narasimhan]

Luke Gorrie wrote:

>Sundar Narasimhan <sundar at itasoftware.com> writes:
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>>Hi, Luke -- I wonder if there should be a "set-frame-in-repl"
>>command..
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>This sounds like something that other people have wanted too, more or
>less. We can look at it in the future, but it's a bit big to slip into
>slime 1.0, which should go out in a week or two warts and all :-)
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Cool!

>>Ok.. We have code that essentially does a (in-package :xyz) at the
>>top of the file.
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>The modeline shows what SLIME thinks is the current package. You
>should see "Slime:xyz", do you?
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It does say that and yet c-c c-m puts the cl-user package in front of 
symbols.. weird.

>This is based on a text search for an in-package form, first backwards
>then forwards. The modeline is updated on an idle timer just for
>display purposes. Any evaluation/macroexpansion/etc will lookup the
>package by search afresh each time.
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I suppose I should look up the code that does this.. to see if the 
package is being handled
correctly.  I'll look into this more.