[slime-devel] Re: Not exactly 'presentation types for emacs' but useful anyway

[Alan Ruttenberg]

Cool. I added my command hook stuff so it is no longer read-only and 
made the thing mouse sensitive - mouse-2 copies it to point.

-Alan

On May 18, 2005, at 10:23 PM, Luke Gorrie wrote:

> Antonio Menezes Leitao <aml at gia.ist.utl.pt> writes:
>
>> I made a quick hack that allows the Slime listener to use Lisp objects
>> that were returned from the Common Lisp environment.
>
> Very nice :-)
>
>> Now, it should be obvious that I am keeping all the returned values in
>> the Common Lisp side for further use.  This means that they are not
>> GCed.  So, from time to time, it might be wise to clean the Listener
>> (just like before, with C-cC-t) or just the previous output (with
>> C-cC-o).  This also releases the corresponding objects from the Common
>> Lisp side.
>
> I added a swank:*record-repl-results* variable so that people can turn
> this off if they want to. I'm a little worried about the potential for
> astonishment ("why isn't GC working?!") but not sure what the best
> solution is.
>
>> If the Slime team thinks this is useful then I suggest that you take a
>> good look at the code (as you usually do :-) and refactor it radically
>> because I did a lot of copy&paste just to test the idea.  And it might
>> also contains lots of bugs :-)
>
> I get it: generate some code and then let the Emacs-monkeys worry
> about maintaining it. :-) We'll let you off this time because it's an
> irresistible feature. I hacked it a little bit after Marco.
>
> Cheers,
> Luke
>
>
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