[slime-devel] patch: make slime-echo-arglist show initargs/initforms for make-instance

[Luís Oliveira]

Hello,

The attached patch makes slime-echo-arglist detect (make-instance
'quoted-symbol ...) forms and uses the quoted symbol to find the class
and present the initargs and initforms in the mini-buffer. For example:

CL-USER> (defclass foo ()
           ((a :initarg :initarg-a :initform nil)
            (b :initarg :initarg-b)
            c))
#<STANDARD-CLASS FOO>
CL-USER> (make-instance<space>
;; minibuffer displays: (make-instance class &rest initargs)

CL-USER> (make-instance 'foo<space>
;; minibuffer displays: (make-instance 'foo &key (initarg-a nil) initarg-b)


The code is a bit ugly, specially on the elisp side. My elisp-fu being
very weak doesn't help. Suggestions on how to improve that are most
welcome!

BTW, the ChangeLog's encoding seems to be latin-1, wouldn't utf-8 be
better?

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