[slime-devel] the slime inspector

[Thomas Schilling]

[Sorry, Marco, you're getting this twice, my mail-client doesn't reply to  
the mailing list by default]

Nice Work!!!

I ported it to acl62, see the attached diff

marco wrote:
> features:
>
> - access docstrings associated with classes, slots, generic functions,
>   methods, functions and global variables/constants.
>
> - makunbound, fmakunbound, remove-method from within inspector.

hm, removing method has one problem though: it doesn't remove the method
at point (instead it always removes the last method.)

Also warning when the last normal method (ie. w/o qualifiers) is about to
be removed would be nice. (though that's just a minor feature)

Nevertheless, I repeat myself: Nice work!!

> todo:
[...]
> - invent some simple syntax for doc strings which will allow the
>   developer to write "See Also" fields and have those "clikable."

How about Emacs `foo' style? I already use it in my docs sometimes (if
just for the colouring effect) but not so often since ` is quite hard to
insert on german keyboards, because it waits for another char being
inserted. And in case of a vocal this may becom ì or ù or è. But if it
spices up my docs I think I can get used to it ;).

[to Marco only:
   Also how about some nice (customizable) coloring to indicate what's
   clickable and what not? But maybe it's already possible and I haven't
   customized it appropriately.
  - I just found `slime-inspector-action-face ;) ]

-ts
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