[slime-devel] SLIME User Survey

[Brian Mastenbrook]

On Jun 18, 2004, at 8:58 AM, Luke Gorrie wrote:

> If the ALU can do it then so can we :-). It would be nice to get some
> feedback to understand which backends are getting the most/least usage
> and which ones are flaky.
>
> So if you are an active SLIME user and you have a moment then please
> reply to this mail (send the reply to the list).
>
> Questions:
>
> Which Lisp versions do you use SLIME with?

SBCL CVS, OpenMCL 0.14.2

> Which Emacs versions?

GNU emacs CVS from November, 21.3.1

> How well does SLIME work for you?

SLIME is a great tool. It works to my satisfaction most of the time, 
and much of what annoys me when using it is the fault of Emacs itself.

> What bugs (reproducible or otherwise) or missing features annoy you?

The behavior of the completions window is constantly annoying - it 
doesn't go away, and when I do close it, Emacs sometimes inscrutably 
decides to give the frame to a buffer that wasn't there before the 
completions window pops up. In general, Emacs' behavior with buffers is 
annoying, but the completion window is more annoying than most.

> Is there some packaging system (e.g. Debian) that you would like to
> see SLIME 1.0 bundled with? If so, do you know how to coordinate this?

Nope

> If you said anything negative above then please say something nice
> here to make us feel good:

Sorry, my quota of nice things is expired for today :-)

(Seriously, SLIME is the best thing out there right now in CL 
development.)
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Brian Mastenbrook
bmastenb at cs.indiana.edu
http://cs.indiana.edu/~bmastenb/