[slime-devel] Arglist while in SLIME debugger

[Helmut Eller]

Lynn Quam <quam at ai.sri.com> writes:

> I find it somewhat annoying that I cannot see the arglist information
> for functions while in the SLIME debugger.

You could set slime-inhibit-pipelining to nil to enable it.  Is there
a reason you can't do that?

> Is it possible to change SLIME-BUSY-P so that SLIME-AUTODOC-MODE and
> SLIME-SPACE will continue to work while inside the SLIME debugger?
>
> To implement this, the SLIME-BUSY-P needs to know the
> rex-continuations for the forms that cause the debugger to be entered.
> The SLIME debugger needs to be able to figure out the rex-continuation
> of the form that caused the debugger to be entered and add it to the
> list in the global variable *SLDB-REX-CONTINUATIONS*.  When the
> debugger exits, it needs to remove it from the list.

Hmm.. that sounds complicated.  It *could* work, but I don't think the
little gain of convenience is worth the complexity.

Helmut.