[slime-devel] Re: contrib branch

[Helmut Eller]

* Kilian Sprotte [2007-08-19 23:12+0200] writes:

> Hi,
>
> I have just installed the contrib branch - everything's loading
> and working fine so far.

Good to hear that.

>
> It seems very tempting now to add some more contributions... :)
>
> I am thinking about one that uses cl-ppcre for find / replace in
> a specific asdf:system or all asdf::*defined-systems*.
>
> For this I have some old code that I find pretty useful and I will
> try to write it up more nicely.
>
> I will probably want to add a submenu at the end of the SLIME menu
> (or somewhere else?).
>
> I have tried using:
> (easy-menu-add-item menubar-slime nil ["hallo" hallo t])
>
> But it seems to be adding this entry sometimes only in the SLIME menu
> for the REPL or in the menu for the slime-mode.
>
> What do you think about menus for contributions in general?

Many Mozilla add-ons insert menu items after a certain separator in
the (Mozilla) tools menu.  We could adopt a convention like that.  I
don't know in detail how to implement that in Emacs, but I'm confident
that it isn't very hard.

Helmut.