[slime-devel] cutting and pasting S-expressions from buffer to REPL

[Dave Cooper]

Oh yes - C-x C-e to evaluate the preceding expression "in place." That
would indeed normally accomplish what it sounds like he is trying to
do.

In this regard, Slime is consistent for Common Lisp with the emacs
bindings for Emacs Lisp (e.g. in a *scratch* buffer you can use C-x
C-e to evaluate the preceding elisp expression).



On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org> wrote:
> I think Faheem wants "C:x, C:e" with the cursor at the right of the
> expression, C:M:f to get it there. I could be wrong, too.
>
>
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Dave Cooper <gendl at genworks.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Faheem,
>>
>>  With the cursor on the _opening_ paren of an s-expression, you can do
>>
>>   C-M-<space>
>>
>>  to select the S-expression, then
>>
>>  M-w
>>
>>  to copy it.
>>
>>  Then go over to the repl (I bind a personal shortcut of C-x & for this),
>> then
>>
>>  C-y
>>
>> to "yank" (paste) the expression to the repl.
>>
>> I'm not sure about automatically switching to the repl and pasting in
>> one go, but I'm sure that would be a few lines of emacs lisp...
>>
>> And a quick way to get the cursor to the opening paren of an s-expression
>> is
>>
>>  C-M-b
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Faheem Mitha <faheem at faheem.info> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello everyone,
>> >
>> > I've recently started using SLIME with SBCl on Debian, where SLIME
>> > defaults
>> > to using SBCL, at least when it is installed. So far I am very
>> > impressed. I
>> > haven't been able to take off and fly yet, but I'm on the runway.:-)
>> >
>> > I'm particularly impressed by the underlining source which has compile
>> > errors, and doing a popup on mouseover feature. I don't know whose idea
>> > this
>> > was, but it is pretty damn cool. Does anyone know the history of this
>> > feature?
>> >
>> > So, I have a question about SLIME. When debugging, or indeed otherwise,
>> > I
>> > find it useful to copy and paste S-expressions from a buffer to the
>> > REPL.
>> > I've been using the mouse for this, which is decidedly sub-optimal. I
>> > hate
>> > using the mouse. I was thinking that it would be handy to have a command
>> > which would copy and paste S-expressions from a buffer to the REPL,
>> > while at
>> > the same time switching the buffer to the REPL. The S-expression would
>> > be
>> > chosen by having the cusor to the right of the closing expression. I'm
>> > not
>> > sure if this position has a name.
>> >
>> > I don't know if this command already exists. I could not find it in the
>> > manual. If it doesn't, could someone tell me what code would tell emacs
>> > to
>> > do this? My knowledge of Emacs programming is non-existent.
>> >
>> > Please CC me on any reply. Thanks.
>> >                                                           Regards,
>> > Faheem
>> >
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