[slime-devel] text properties in REPL

[Helmut Eller]

* Madhu [2009-01-10 05:08+0100] writes:

> * Helmut Eller <m2skokh60z.fsf at common-lisp.net> :
> Wrote on Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:24:12 +0100:
>
> | * Madhu [2008-12-19 02:00+0100] writes:
> |
> |> I could come up with them, but I do not see the point of posting them
> |> here.  I can come up with 3 different arguments [not based on validity
> |> but based on projections of your ego] as to how you can reject them.
> |
> | Your arguments don't prove that text properties have any effect on
> | rendering speed.  If you can't show me reproducible benchmarks I don't
> | believe it.
>
> Nevertheless it is important to me that I can control whether or not
> text properties are set.

Customizing slime-write-string-function is probably not an option for you.

> The current API and is a mess to support this.  And the direction you
> are taking SLIME in with your style of refactoring code does not help.
>
> I understand you believe it makes it easier for you to maintain SLIME
> but it is at the expense of others maintining other behaviours possible
> from SLIME, or using it in ways you cannot [because of limitations]
> imagine or [because of politics] agree with.  In effect it makes the
> work of others working with slime except as end users much harder, while
> fortifying your own position as maintainer.

Why should I support features that I can't imagine [because I'm too stupid]
or disagree with [because I'm a jerk]? 
Isn't it your task to convince me that those feature have some worth [for me]?