[slime-devel] Re: [slime-cvs] CVS update: slime/doc/slime.texi

[Dan Pierson]

Helmut Eller wrote:
> Luke Gorrie <luke at synap.se> writes:
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>>[Did this post not make it to the list yesterday?]
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> I didn't see it before.
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>>heller at common-lisp.net (Helmut Eller) writes:
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>>>Modified Files:
>>>	slime.texi 
>>>Log Message:
>>>Mention Unicode support and some multi-threading issues.
>>
>>Cool. I added some notes about the new inspector. I wonder if we're
>>actually using the INSPECTOR argument to INSPECT-IN-EMACS anywhere?
>>Can we remove it, or?
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> 
> I think it's used to dispatch to backend specific methods while still
> having a fallback method in the front end, e.g., we have methods for:
> 
>   inspect-for-emacs (object function) (inspector t) ; in swank.lisp
>   inspect-for-emacs (object function) (inspector lispworks-inspector)
> 
> The inspector argument is only used to select the method.  If we
> remove the inspector argument, then one method overwrites the other.
> 
> The other idea was that the extra argument could be used to implement
> different "modes", e.g., switching between the generic and the backend
> specific view for an object.  But that's not used.
> 
> Those (ignore inspector) declarations are certainly ugly.  Maybe
> there's a better way to do all this.
> 
> BTW, I'd like to remove cl-indent.el from SLIME, because nobody worked
> on it.  Any objections?

Well, I have some changes to support more control of loop indentation 
that I've been meaning to submit.  Are you interested?  Some folks here 
have been using them for about a month and seem happy.

>>I also documented slime-selector. I'm reproducing that section here
>>since it's so bad that most people probably don't know about it:
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> 
> How true.
> 
> Helmut.