[slime-devel] SLIME development newbie questions

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Tamas K Papp <tkpapp at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I decided that it would be worthwhile to learn some Emacs Lisp, mainly
> in order to understand the internals of SLIME better -- maybe I could
> get to the point that I could extend and customize it myself.  This is
> why I am posting here instead of an emacs group.
>
> I am looking for help on how to get started, especially with the
> following:
>
> 1. Is there a SLIME-like IDE for Emacs Lisp?  

Yes.  It's called emacs.


> If not, what's the closest?  

There's also a classic REPL, M-x ielm RET


> I know that Emacs itself provides some functionality, but it
> does not look nearly as comfy as SLIME for CL.  Eg I couldn't figure
> out the equivalent of M-. and similar.

It's M-.  if you have generated the tags with etags(1)

You can also use:  C-h f C-x o TAB RET 



> 2. Is there a document describing the architecture of SLIME?
>
> 3. How should I start?  What's the best way to start poking around in
> SLIME?

Good questions.

Perhaps a good start would be to write a swank backend for emacs?   If
Christophe Rhode could write one for R, you could write one for emacs!

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