[slime-devel] Re: Backup tags handling for M-.

[Luke Gorrie]

Alain.Picard at memetrics.com writes:

> Nikodemus Siivola writes:
>  > On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Luke Gorrie wrote:
>  > 
>  > > > tags file like emacs Lisp-mode when it's standard behavior fails?
>  > >
>  > > Certainly this is possible, but why not compile/load the module that
>  > > you're browsing instead?
>  > 
>  > Because the box is under too much strain already, or loading the module
>  > would take too long, or the module is not in a loadable state.
>
> Concur.  This is what ILISP does, and I think it's fine behaviour.
> One often wants to view some files "read only", not polluting
> the state of the underlying lisp world with undesired symbols.

Okay, I'll surrender in to the rising "fallback on tags" movement
before it gets ugly :-)

Now you can do this:

  (setq slime-edit-definition-fallback-function 'find-tag)