On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Robert P. Goldman <rpgoldman@sift.info> wrote:

Any advice about the attached would be helpful...

1. I thought I had figured out how to interactively get at the real definitions, instead of the ones dumped into build/asdf.lisp (which I don't want to edit -- that's like editing your binary).

I have this function:

(defun debug-asdf () (dolist (c (asdf::required-components :asdf/defsystem :keep-component 'asdf:cl-source-file)) (load (asdf:component-pathname c))))

This works for the non-UIOP part of ASDF. For UIOP, (asdf:load-system :uiop :force t) should work. See the README.md for the full recipe.

and that does seem to load everything properly.

However, use of SLIME-EDIT-DEFINITION after executing DEBUG-ASDF still dumps me into build/asdf.lisp instead of where I want to be.

2. SLIME-EDIT-DEFINITION on SBCL is confused by the WITH-UPGRADABILITY macro.

Anyone know of a way to clue SLIME in to the fact that what's really wanted is the enclosed DEFUN* form, not the WITH-UPGRADABILITY macro?

Interestingly, ACL is *not* fooled by this macro, and drops me where I want to be (although still in asdf.lisp instead of the component file).

So this seems to be a problem with SB-INTROSPECT:FIND-DEFINITION-SOURCE, not SLIME per se.

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