"Sean" == Sean O'Rourke <sorourke@cs.ucsd.edu>: Sean> Jan Rychter <jan@rychter.com> writes: Seriously, SLIME has already gotten to the point where it's more useful than ILisp for me,
Sean> I switched to Slime for awhile, but switched back to Ilisp for Sean> the moment for two reasons: Sean> - stability. [...] Yes, that's what I meant by "explosive". In particular, I've been bitten by SLIME's unwillingness to act gracefully when lisp decides to produce tons of output. I found most of the time I have no way to interrupt the process if it is producing output fast, which means I eventually have to kill XEmacs. Neither C-c C-c nor C-g in the REPL do anything. Sean> - Usability details. The big one here is completion -- Ilisp has Sean> a couple of completion features that Slime lacks: filename Sean> completion in strings, and multiword expansion (e.g. "m-w-e<tab>" Sean> -> "multi-word-expansion"). Is there any reason not to pillage Sean> Ilisp for these nice touches? Oh, yes. I miss the multiword expansion, too. I have to remind myself not to type m-v-b<TAB> every once in a while. --J.