Dear Slimers,
Well, it hadda happen, I started using SLIME in earnest, as a full-blown replacement to ILISP. Of course, this immediately lead to annoyance at the many missing features.
Now, it turns out that many of these missing features are really just editing conveniences, and don't have a lot (anything?) to do with emacs<-->lisp communication, so I thought I'd ask: what is the avowed policy of this project with regards to borrowing¹ the missing features of ilisp? I'm thinking in particular of all the buffer-movement, narrow-to-X and reindentation commands, for a start. It seems silly to rewrite all this, given that it all works. All that would be needed is some poor schmuck² to import only the strict minimum, track down all the dependencies, and hook in the keybindings, taking care not to trounce too much exising ones without reason or debate.
Opinions?
¹ Ok, maybe the subject line is more accurate than this euphemism. ² Yeah, I know. Probably _me_.
p.s. Is it "slimers" or "slimeys"? :-)