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

[Faheem Mitha]

On Mon, 14 May 2012, Dave Cooper 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

Hi Dave,

Wow, that was a fast reply. Thanks for the helpful tips. I tried them, and 
they work.

Yes, I'd like to be able to do it in one shot, but I don't know any Emacs 
Lisp. I wonder how different Emacs Lisp is from Common Lisp.

                                                           Regards, Faheem