[slime-devel] Re: no package name on a mode line after 2004-07-19?

[Luke Gorrie]

Chisheng Huang <cph at chi-square-works.com> writes:

> Slime retrieved from CVS on or before 2004-07-19 would print a package 
> name on the mode line of a buffer editing a Lisp file.  After 2004-07-19,
> Slime stops printing a package name on a mode line.  Is this change 
> intentional?  It's not documented in the change log.  Printing a package
> name on a mode line is quite useful.

The package name is now printed in the modeline again. This time it
gets updated by an idle timer, which is hopefully slightly better.