[slime-devel] Strings inspection

[Helmut Eller]

* Mariano Montone [2009-12-04 17:45+0100] writes:

> Hi!
>
> Is there a better way of inspecting large strings than what is currently
> available?
>
> It happens to me a lot that when an error happens, the condition raised
> has a meaningful string for me as one of its parameters or as a
> description. Unfortunately it is too large, so slime (or the lisp
> backend) doesn't display it all. So I decide to inspect it, but the
> simple character array inspector shows me the list of characters instead
> of the string in a readable form.
>
> Is there a way of getting away with this?

Pressing p in the inspector calls print on the object and displays the
output in a fresh buffer.  It also not that hard to write your own
command to print the condition in a format that you like.

Helmut