Hi Mark,
While working on the autoloaders, I found a very interesting thing: SLIME doesn't know about ABCL's autoloaders.
To maximize the benefit of SLIME for ABCL (yea, I even started using it to debug ABCL itself, after you pointed out to me that these tools generally help productivity), I think it would be beneficial to teach it about autoloaders.
The case I'm talking about is this: When using M-. SLIME looks up the source code location for the source associated with the symbol. However, when you do that to a symbol which hasn't been autoloaded yet, that source code location information isn't available. SLIME could easily resolve that by evaluating the form (SYS::RESOLVE <symbol>) and look for the info after that.
SLIME could do the same when looking up function lambda list information to present in the minibuffer for auto-completion.
How about that?
Bye,
Erik.