[slime-devel] Re: slime-complete-form broken

[Tobias C. Rittweiler]

Matthias Koeppe <mkoeppe+slime at mail.math.uni-magdeburg.de> writes:

> Hi Tobias,
>
> I noticed that slime-complete-form is broken in SLIME CVS.  Since you
> did the most recent changes to arglist-related parsing, I hope you can
> fix it.
>
> Create this Lisp buffer:
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> (defun
>
> (defun foo (a)
>   a)
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> Then move point after the first "defun" and press C-c C-s.  
>
> SLIME now inserts "varlist body...)" and then signals "Wrong type
> argument: stringp, nil".
>
> It should have inserted "name varlist body...)" instead (it should
> also not signal an error).

I couldn't reproduce the error. The bogus behaviour should be fixed in
CVS. I'd be interested in seeing a backtrace nontheless, though.


> Apparently the "defun foo" form is taken as an actual argument to the
> first "defun" form and consumes the formal argument "name".  This is
> wrong.  For slime-complete-form, the parser should ignore everything
> that is beyond the token around point, as in earlier versions of the
> code (I remark it is NOT sufficient to just stop before the next
> top-level expression).

Right!

Thanks for spotting this,

  -T.