Re: [slime-devel] Re: Users!

"Sean O'Rourke" sorourke@cs.ucsd.edu writes:

I switched to Slime for awhile, but switched back to Ilisp for the moment for two reasons:

• stability. This is probably a red herring, since you can evidently just leave a Lisp up and running and reconnect after a crash; it's also transient, since Slime is improving by leaps and bounds (infinitely faster than Ilisp, one might say;).

I hadn't realised we had stability-as-in-crash problems. We'll fix them.

• Usability details. The big one here is completion -- Ilisp has a couple of completion features that Slime lacks: filename completion in strings, and multiword expansion (e.g. "m-w-e<tab>" -> "multi-word-expansion"). Is there any reason not to pillage Ilisp for these nice touches?

Pillaging ideas, definitely. Pillaging code hasn't been a big success so far. In the cases I've tried, the ILISP code was really showing its age (way) too much.

Today might be an exception. I spent quite some time implementing a "m-w-e<tab>" feature, but the algorithm I cooked up turned out to completely suck, and it isn't useful. Bugger. :-)

Cheers, Luke