[slime-devel] Re: Towards 1.0?

[Luke Gorrie]

Andras Simon <andras at renyi.hu> writes:

> On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Luke Gorrie wrote:
>
>> Amazingly I find myself using the REPL all the time, even though I
>> never use IELM for Emacs Lisp. I'm not sure why.
>
> This one is easy, I think :-) How often are you curious about the
> return value of an emacs lisp function given some arguments? If you
> used emacs lisp for writing (non-editing-related) applications,
> you'd probably spend a lot more time in ielm buffers.

Yeah, that'd explain it. My Elisp evals typically operate on the
current buffer/point so I wouldn't run them from IELM.

-Luke