[slime-devel] contrib for repl images

Theam Yong Chew senatorzergling at gmail.com
Wed Sep 15 00:49:16 UTC 2010


On 9/14/10, Christophe Rhodes <csr21 at cantab.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Attached are files which I propose to add to contrib/ to allow image
> display in the repl.  The Common Lisp support is entirely non-existent,
> but I have prototype code using the slime support to do manipulations of
> graphical objects in R:
> <http://doc.gold.ac.uk/~mas01cr/tmp/swankr-images.png> displays an
> example.
>
> I'd like to put this or something like it in; I'm asking for review of
> this approach and implementation.
>
>

For what it's worth, I've always wanted something like this.

It's possible to even go crazy, and have an analogue to
print-object to give an image view of everything. The
resulting presentations can give something that feels like
Smalltalk. :)

Yong.




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