Dear mailing list member,

Here is a summary of the progress that has been made since the last progress report.

First, as promised, the new Lisp syntax continues to evolve. Lexemes are parsed into Common Lisp symbols and presented as such whenever possible. This opens the possibility of having clickable symbols and/or of having information displayed when the cursor is over a symbol, though not much has been done to exploit that possibility yet.

A framework for indentation of Common Lisp code is in place, and indentation functions exist for some common constructs such as defun, defgeneric, defmethod, defclass, with-slots, let, let*, cond, when, unless, and prog1. This indentation framework is smarter than that of Emacs and does not make mistakes when names of CL functions are used as local variables, etc., though Emacs indent function is of course more mature than what Climacs can do at the moment. I encourage everyone to check out this framework and add an indent function for his or her favorite CL construct. The one for `loop' will be quite challenging, but some others can be quite simple, especially since I provide macros to create indent functions for simple constructs.

Christophe Rhodes has released his atypical syntax module for editing lute notation. The code is available at this location:

http://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/~mas01cr/tabcode-20050708.tar.gz

His syntax module is used in the ECOLM project that you can read about here:

http://vega.soi.city.ac.uk/~dlewis/.home/

For the ILC2005 presentation, Brian Mastenbrook wrote another atypical syntax module called `slidemacs' which lets the buffer contents be presented as slides.

Minor fixes have been made by myself, Brian Mastenbrook, Dan Barlow, Christophe Rhodes

Dirk Gerrits reported a bug in undo/redo that has been fixed.

Dan Barlow is rumored to be working on cleaning up key bindings, and Aleksandar Bakic is rumored to be working on giving Climacs regex support.