[slime-devel] Re: Weird Slime Loading Behavior & Less Pretty Autodoc

[Helmut Eller]

* Yacin Nadji [2008-07-07 22:04+0200] writes:

> I'm running CVS slime on Mac OS X, and I'm having some strange issues. 
> I upgraded to CVS slime because I broke my version I had installed through 
> macports by doing some silly upgrades of sbcl. First, SLIME-SETUP seems 
> to load things improperly. If you take a look at my .emacs[1] you'll see 
> I had to add (require 'slime-fuzzy) in order to get fuzzy auto-complete working. 
> Looking at the source for what slime-fancy does, this should be auto-loaded, 
> but it doesn't seem to work properly without manually loading it. 
>
> I have a feeling this has to do with my other problem. Currently, the little 
> function prototype helper[2] (that says the name of the function, and the 
> name of the parameters it takes) looks a lot uglier than it used to. 
> It used to have colors, and highlighted the current parameter I should 
> be entering in. I realize this isn't a huge deal, but I wanted to see 
> if it was due to using CVS slime, or if I just have something 
> configured incorrectly.

CVS slime needs to be configured a little differently then it used be.
You should call (slime-setup '(slime-fuzzy slime-autodoc)) somewhere in
your .emacs.  This will autoload fuzzy completion and the fancy arglist
display.  See the section "Loading Contrib Packages" in the manual.

Helmut.