[slime-devel] Re: Evaluate forms from within Lisp buffers and displaying the result in the REPL

[Tobias C. Rittweiler]

Rainer Joswig <joswig at lisp.de> writes:

> I'm a bit used to the behavior of MCL when it comes
> to Lisp buffers and listeners. Maybe SLIME developers
> know how to achieve a similar behavior or would like
> to provide something similar.

Hi Rainer,

I think what you want is better support for using a Lisp buffer as
scratch buffer (as it's commonly called on modern Emacsen); Someone
(Brian Downing?) had some ideas on how to improve support for this kind
of development, IIRC.


What I'd really like is something that can fetch an s-exp and all its
relevant lexical context (LET, FLET/LABELS, MACROLET, SYMBOL-MACROLET
bindings) and copy it over to the REPL (without executing it.) :)

(Cutting down a sexp to the relevant parts isn't that bad with
paredit.el, though. Btw., Rainer, you do know about paredit.el, don't
you? :))

  -T.