[slime-devel] features from ILisp I miss in slime

[Svein Ove Aas]

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:19:02 +0000, Rodrigo Ventura <yoda at isr.ist.utl.pt> wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I've just tryed slime, after years of ILisp use, and I feel great!
> Slime is definitely a step ahead of ILisp.
> 
> However, there some features I was used to in ILisp, and that I miss
> in slime. Maybe some of them are configurable, maybe others are
> not. Here goes my list:
> 
> - there are a list of key bindings that can be seen after a C-h m in a
> Lisp Slime mode, which do not work (e.g., C-c C-a, C-c C-c, etc.) Some
> of them have different key bindings in Slime, while others follow a
> distinct functional scheme (e.g., showing arguments as you type, which
> works fine in slime).
> 
> - in Lisp Slime mode a RET does not auto-indent the next line. It'd be
> useful to have auto-identation, so that we could save a TAB everytime
> we write a new line of LISP.
> 
See my recent post for code which will not only auto-indent, but also
show you the argument list of the current function, similar to when
you press space.

> - in the REPL loop M-p is not quite pratical; couldn't you use for
> instance C-up for last expression entered (similar to ILisp)?
> 

This can be rebound easily, but personally I rather like M-p. I don't
use the arrow keys much.