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[slime-devel] SLIME talk at the Emacs Conference
by Luke Gorrie 08 Apr '15

08 Apr '15

Howdy! Long time no chat :-) I will give a talk at the Emacs Conference (emacsconf.org, London March 31) called "How to write an Emacs-based IDE like SLIME". The idea is to demo SLIME, explain how its development works, and give some encouragement and practical tips to people who might want to build something similar for other languages. If you have some ideas please fire away :) particularly about things I might easily overlook being as my SLIME know-how is about 10 years old! Cheers, -Luke

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[slime-devel] cutting and pasting S-expressions from buffer to REPL
by Faheem Mitha 27 Dec '14

27 Dec '14

Hello everyone, I've recently started using SLIME with SBCl on Debian, where SLIME defaults to using SBCL, at least when it is installed. So far I am very impressed. I haven't been able to take off and fly yet, but I'm on the runway.:-) I'm particularly impressed by the underlining source which has compile errors, and doing a popup on mouseover feature. I don't know whose idea this was, but it is pretty damn cool. Does anyone know the history of this feature? So, I have a question about SLIME. When debugging, or indeed otherwise, I find it useful to copy and paste S-expressions from a buffer to the REPL. I've been using the mouse for this, which is decidedly sub-optimal. I hate using the mouse. I was thinking that it would be handy to have a command which would copy and paste S-expressions from a buffer to the REPL, while at the same time switching the buffer to the REPL. The S-expression would be chosen by having the cusor to the right of the closing expression. I'm not sure if this position has a name. I don't know if this command already exists. I could not find it in the manual. If it doesn't, could someone tell me what code would tell emacs to do this? My knowledge of Emacs programming is non-existent. Please CC me on any reply. Thanks. Regards, Faheem

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[Slime-devel] Freeze for SLIME 2.10 and a heads up
by Luís Oliveira 10 Oct '14

10 Oct '14

Hello, There was no September release, but October will return to the (increasingly) usual monthly release cycle. The last two months were fairly active, so focusing on testing and fixing regressions since the last release would be great. I plan to release SLIME 2.10 next Sunday. On a related note, swank-backend was renamed to swank/backend and backends now have their own swank/foo packages. I'm interested in knowing whether this breaks code out there and whether it'd be worthwhile to add temporary nicknames that would ease the migration. (Alas, searching for swank-backend on github yields lots and lots of people who commit copies of SLIME into their emacs configs...) Cheers, -- Luís Oliveira http://kerno.org/~luis/

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[Slime-devel] SLY, a fork of SLY
by joaotavora＠gmail.com 08 Sep '14

08 Sep '14

Hi list, For some time now, I've been working on SLY, a fork of SLIME. I believe it is ready to go live now. There's a screencast at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqWkVvubnSI and the project page lives at github http://github.com/capitaomorte/sly.git SLY forked around SLIME 2.4 and is currently on-par with bugfixes in SLIME 2.9. It will continue to track SLIME's bugfixes. A list of changes SLY is available in its NEWS.md file. SLY is still alpha for now. I believe I have done everything right fork-wise, maintaining the licensing notice, crediting the original authors prominently in the README and in any commits cherry-picked from this project. Nevertheless, I invite the current SLIME maintainers to double check-check and notify me so that I can correct any mistakes. Thanks João

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