[slime-devel] Suggestion: slime-symbol-at-point

[Helmut Eller]

Jan Rychter <jan at rychter.com> writes:

> The following fixes it, but I keep scratching my head to understand why
> the (skip-syntax-backward "-") was originally there -- I can't find a
> purpose for it.

It was there to skip backwards across whitespace.  I think that's
quite useful, C-h f does that to.  But of course it failed if point
was immediately before a symbol.  Should be fixed in CVS.  
Thanks for the report.

Helmut.