[slime-devel] slime-typeout-frame vs autodoc timers

[Raymond Toy]

Tobias C. Rittweiler wrote:
> Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> I finally upgraded to a recent version of slime (2009-07-01 or so) and
>> found a couple of issues.
>>
>> First, I use slime-typeout-frame and it references
>> slime-autodoc-start-timer (and other autodoc stuff).  These don't seem
>> to exist anymore.
> 
> Slime's Autodoc was rewritten to reuse Emacs' Eldoc. Unfortunately the
> latter does not provide any hook into how it displays its messages.
> 
> If I send a patch to (X)Emacs upstream, and, let's say, it'll be
> applied, will you go and grab XEmacs CVS version?

I finally got around to looking at this again.  I have the same issue
with today's CVS code, but I just commented out the calls to
slime-autodoc-start-timer and slime-autodoc-stop-timer.  This makes
things work much better.

There are other issues, but I'll put that in another message.

Ray