[slime-devel] Re: Feature suggestion

[Andras Simon]

Marco Antoniotti <marcoxa at cs.nyu.edu> writes:

> Hi
> 
> I would like to suggest a feature for SLIME taken from Lispworks.
> 
> In LW I can type
> 
> prompt> first '(1 2 3)
> 3
> 
> prompt> member 42 '((3 2 3) (1 42 33) (42 11 22)) :key #'second
> ((1 42 33) (42 11 22))
> 
> I.e. a line gets parenthesized if it is not already an expression (of course
> there are cases where things get hairy, but in general I find it useful).

Is it typing or reading those outer parens that bothers you? If the former,
then slime printing a pair of parens after the prompt with the point on the
closing one, and temporarily making, say Space, delete the parens, would seem
like a better idea to me.

> 
> This may even make it more appealing to people who dislike enclosing
> parentheses.

Who are those people? :)

Andras