slime-edit-definition from within of (defpackage )

[Luís Oliveira]

That makes sense. There already exist other similar extensions to M-. that
allow it to find local functions for instance. See the slime-mdot-fu
contrib.

Cheers,
Luís

On Fri, 2 Sep 2022 at 03:43, Anton Vodonosov <avodonosov at yandex.ru> wrote:

> Hello.
>
> People may want to open package.lisp of some library to study the public
> API,
> and quickly navigate to definition of any symbol from the :export list,
> in order to read the docstring.
>
> I use slime-edit-definition (with the M-. shortcut) for navigation to
> docstrings.
>
> But that usually does not work from within of (defpackage ) form,
> because slime determines the current package based on the (in-package)
> at the top of the file and usually package files have
>
>    (in-package :cl-user)
>
>    (defpackage :some-lib
>       (:export #:some-function
>                     #:another-function
>                      ...))
>
>
> So when cursor stays on #:some-function and M-. is pressed
> slime says "No known definition for: #:some-function (in :cl-user)"
>
> As a workaround I temporarily insert (in-pakcage :some-lib) above the
> (defpackage ).
>
> But it would be convenient if slime understood that the within the :export
> option of defpackage the symbols belong to the package being defined
> and not to the closest (in-package ).
>
> So that the proposal for consideration of the slime maintainers.
>
> Best regards,
> - Anton
>
-- 
Luís Oliveira
https://kerno.org/~luis/
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