Luke Gorrie wrote:
John Paul Wallington jpw@gnu.org writes:
I think that SLIME's scratch buffer should be for stuff that you don't want to save -- just like Emacs' scratch buffer is.
Now that you mention it that's probably right. :-)
On the other hand, I've used various development environments (Smalltalk-80, MPW, MacScheme) that could maintain a transcript that remembered its contents across sessions, and that can be handy, too. For example, my MPW worksheet evolved into a repository of handy one-liner cliches that used all the time.