[slime-devel] Canonicalizing buffer names

Tobias C. Rittweiler tcr at freebits.de
Wed Apr 21 15:14:23 UTC 2010


Helmut Eller <heller at common-lisp.net> writes:

> * 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.

So you use the slime-selector extensively? I'm still looking for a good
place for it on qwertz. Where do you have it?

  -T.





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