[slime-devel] Slime inserting an extra parenthesis

[Edi Weitz]

On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 15:20:15 +0100, Jan Rychter <jan at rychter.com> wrote:

> I often use insert-parentheses in XEmacs, and it seems to interact
> badly with SLIME.
>
> An example: I begin with:
>
> CL-USER> ()
>           ^point
>
> I then type asdf-u<TAB>:u<TAB> and end up with this:
>
> CL-USER> (asdf-upgrade:upgrade))
>                                ^point
>
> Notice the extra parenthesis that SLIME inserted.
>
> My guess is that SLIME shouldn't insert this parenthesis. I can
> understand where this came from (no extra args, so the user surely
> wants to close the parenthesis), but for someone mostly working with
> balanced parentheses this isn't too useful.

I think this can be controlled with

  slime-complete-symbol*-fancy

Cheers,
Edi.