[slime-devel] Re: Pictures in the REPL -- Big Dirty hack

[Patrick Collison]

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Ariel Badichi <abadichi at bezeqint.net> wrote:
> "Patrick Collison" <patrick at collison.ie> writes:
>
>  > I wanted to be able to display images in my SLIME repl, so that I
>  > could do stuff like http://collison.ie/img/google-charts.png. I played
>  > around with swank.lisp and slime.el for an hour, and hacked together
>  > something that mostly works. The code is ugly as sin, but I'm posting
>  > it here in case anyone wants to similarly subvert their SLIME
>  > installation. If there's any interest in having this be a part of the
>  > SLIME distribution, I'm happy to look at cleaning it up...
>  >
>
>  I, too, hacked something like that not long ago:
>
>  http://common-lisp.net/pipermail/slime-devel/2008-April/007264.html

Cool. Luke/Helmut, what say you to including something along these
lines in SLIME? I suspect there may be many who'd find it useful --
since twittering about it yesterday, I've had a number of people
contact me looking for the patch.

Cheers,

Patrick