[toronto-lisp] Fwd: Development helpers

[Aleksandar Matijaca]

Since doit-3 "lives" inside the vm via Repl , it seems logical that somehow
one should be able to "dump it" to file or to the console etc. Copy into a
clipboard would be good too.

Sent from my iPhone

On 2010-10-07, at 9:58, Brian Connoy <BConnoy at morrisonhershfield.com> wrote:

 Hi Aleksandar!



Like Paul, I can only speak for LispWorks.  While working in the Listener,
the “History Search” command can be invoked with ALT+R.  In the minibuffer
you will be able to enter ‘doit-3’ and press enter.  The DEFUN for ‘doit-3’
will appear at the prompt.



Perhaps there is something similar in other environments?



Cheers,

Brian Connoy





p.s.   Sorry, I didn’t get to meet you at the last meet.







*From:* Aleksandar Matijaca [mailto:amatijaca at gmail.com]
*Sent:* Wednesday, October 06, 2010 10:48 PM
*To:* toronto-lisp at common-lisp.net
*Subject:* [toronto-lisp] Fwd: Development helpers





Hi there,



first of all Paul and Dave, thanks for replying!!  The question can perhaps
be best explained

with an example:



repl=> (defun doit-3 (x)

(* 3 x))

repl=> '(some more cool stuff)

repl=>'(and more and more)



i keep testing and playing around with functions

more and more



I can certainly run my doit-3 function



repl=>(doit-3 4)

12

repl=>



and now, I say to myself, - how the heck did I write that doit-3, I forgot,
because,

I wrote it 20 minutes ago, it obviously exists inside REPL because I can
execute it...

So, how do I view [dump??] the contents of doit-3 to the screen, or to a
file on the

disk, so I can invoke an editor and modify doit-3 and then reload it??



I am just interested in learning how to be more productive in a standard
software

development cycle.



Thanks, Alex.







On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Paul Tarvydas <
tarvydas at visualframeworksinc.com> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> A bit of a noob question - let's say that I have an interactive Repl
> session that has been going on for about an hour or so, and all of a
> sudden I wish to modify a defun I wrote a while ago. What is the
> easiest way first to show that code on the console, modify it, and
> load it back into Repl ?
>
> I am just trying to come up with a comfortable development environment
> for myself.

There is something called "(dribble)" which records a transcript of your
session.  I've never used it.

With LW, I typically use the editor to type into a file (buffer) and
compile-load the buffer, or ^E one form or defun.  Undo can get you back to
an earlier state.  I find that if I'm experimenting, I do it a function at a
time, until I'm happy with it, so I never have to go back a full hour.

I take it that most free lisp users use emacs+slime.  You split the emacs
window into two, one half shows your edit buffer, the other shows a lisp
interaction.  A keystroke sends your current form to the interaction and you
see the result in the interaction buffer.

pt

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