[slime-devel] Re: Missing features in latest CVS (take 2)

[Helmut Eller]

* Maciej Katafiasz [2008-02-12 00:00+0100] writes:

> I'm seeing the same thing again, everything but the name, docstring and 
> lambda list has disappeared. I first noticed that with CVS snapshot from 
> 06-02-2008 (updated from an earlier snapshot of early December I believe, 
> which worked as advertised). It's still the case with CVS from 10 minutes 
> ago. Additionally, I have updated my SBCL to 1.0.14 from 1.0.10 (after 
> updating SLIME and noticing the missing functionality), and it seems that 
> now even the dosctring has disappeared, and only name and lambda list are 
> displayed. 

We have a method EMACS-INSPECT which is specialized to the various
types.  The problem is that the SBCL backend defines a method for
functions but also the fancy-inspector (which is largely backend
independent).  Previously it was possible to give one of the methods
precedence, but since a few days that's no longer possible and the
fancy-inspector just redefines the method for functions because it is
loaded after the backend.  We could delete the method from the
fancy-inspector, but I don't know if that's appropriate for all backends.

Helmut.