[slime-devel] suggestion: make applying indent-sexp to results of macroexpansion optional

[Tobias C Rittweiler]

In article <22580327-C753-4400-B343-A891B57524CB at gmail.com>,
 michaelawells <michaelawells at gmail.com> wrote:

> In some cases, "indent-sexp" can be very slow, particularly when it is used 
> on complex "macroexpanded" expressions.
> 
> In my case, it takes 43 seconds to apply "indent-sexp" to a buffer of ~6000 
> lines.  (I measured this using the elp package.  
> 
> The expression produced by SBCL and Allegro is already nicely formatted, so I 
> would prefer not to display the result as formatted, rather than wait.
> 
> So, I suggest adding an option to slime.el called 
> "slime-indent-sexp-after-macroexpand", which would allow "indent-sexp" to be 
> disabled.

I'm fine by this. In fact I wouldn't mind getting rid of the indent-sexp
alltogether. Others?

In case this does not get picked up by anyone in the next few days,
please submit it as a ticket in the launchpad tracker.

  -T.