Re: [slime-devel] Add hook to swank::dispatch-event

* Paulo Madeira [2011-04-14 20:52] writes:

What do you think about adding a hook to swank::dispatch-event, much alike the mechanism in slime-dispatch-event? The purpose would be to support any set of commands that the contribs add, or even the user, through .swank.lisp or any other means.

Right now, you can't send any command to Emacs that isn't in dispatch-event's destructuring-case.

What kind of commands do you need? Contribs can add new functions with defslimefun and Emacs can call those without much pain. Slime also has "channels" (see contrib/slime-mrepl.el for an example) which, at least in theory, allow you to run custom protocols that don't match the RPC paradigm.

Helmut