[slime-devel] Autodoc mode and the typeout frame

[Geoff Wozniak]

When the typeout frame is active, autodoc output is sent to the frame  
using a call to SLIME-TYPEOUT-MESSAGE in SLIME-AUTODOC-MESSAGE.  In  
turn, SLIME-TYPEOUT-MESSAGE applies FORMAT to the string to display  
it.  This causes a fair number of errors when the string contains the  
% character and eventually autodoc-mode shuts off.

I've attached a patch to fix it against the latest version.  All it  
does is call REPLACE-REGEXP-IN-STRING before the string is sent to  
SLIME-TYPEOUT-MESSAGE.

I'm not convinced this solution is at all elegant, but I'm not  
familiar with the architecture of Slime enough to know what a better  
solution might be.  It's a hack since it's not terribly robust: right  
now no format arguments are passed to SLIME-TYPEOUT-MESSAGE but if  
they are, then the hack provided (likely) won't work.

Anyway, this patch solves my immediate problem and I thought it was a  
point worth bringing up.

And am I one of the only people to use a typeout frame? :)

-- 
Geoff



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