[slime-devel] Canonicalizing buffer names

Helmut Eller heller at common-lisp.net
Wed Apr 21 14:40:16 UTC 2010


* Tobias C. Rittweiler [2010-04-20 10:52+0200] writes:

> Slime does not currently have a consistent scheme on namings its
> buffers.
>
> There's 
>
>   *slime-repl ...*
>   
>   *sldb...*
>
>   *SLIME ...*
>
>   *Slime ...*
>
>
> I think at least the last two should be coalesced.
>
> Probably by introducing a function `slime-buffer-name' which can be used
> like (slime-buffer-name :compilation) or (slime-buffer-name :inspector)
> and which will produce the actual buffer names in whatever scheme we
> like best.
>
> Any problem with that? 

Well, people will start looking up buffers by name which is not a good
idea and should be discouraged.

> And what do you prefer *SLIME...* or *Slime...*?

Slime

Helmu





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