[slime-devel] Re: Expand imported symbol with package name

[Numeromancer]

Helmut Eller wrote:
> * Numeromancer [2008-01-30 23:27+0100] writes:
> 
>>>> Numeromancer <tschaef at sbcglobal.net> writes:
>>>>
>>>>>> Does slime have a function which will qualify the symbol at point with
>>>>>> its package name if it is imported?  And the obvious extension,
>>>>>> qualifying all symbols in the region or file?  Does anyone have any
>>>>>> hints on how one might create such a function?
> 
> No, Slime has no such command.
> 
> [...]
>> Perhaps "imported" is not technically correct. "Available in the current
>> package without qualification" might be better.  Or not.
>>
>> I mean this: if I am in package foo, which uses cl, for example, then
>>
>> (map 'func-in-foo (list 1 2 3 var-in-foo))
>>
>> would be transformed to
>>
>> (cl:map 'func-in-foo (cl:list 1 2 3 var-in-foo))
>>
>> if the whole expression were in the region.  The symbols in the current
>> package are not qualified.  Or, the package name is an argument and only
>> symbols in that package are so qualified.
> 
> Would you like to implement something like this?

Yes 

> Sending the region (as string) and the name of the current package to
> the Lisp process is very easy.  Perhaps it's good enough to READ the
> region in the package (or perhaps some temporary package with suitable
> imports) and pprint the form with clever printer settings.  Sending the
> printed result back and inserting it in the buffer is also easy.
> 
> Helmut.
> 


Something like this, maybe?

(defun slime-eval-region (start end)
  "Evaluate region."
  (interactive "r")
  (slime-eval-with-transcript
   `(swank:interactive-expand-symbols
     ,(buffer-substring-no-properties start end))))

I just need do define swank:interactive-expand-symbols.
I'll look into it.  Thanks. 

Tim S