"Marco" == Marco Baringer mb@bese.it writes:
[...] Marco> is this ok or is it important that slime remain concentrated on Marco> being an emacs interface and not a general common lisp Marco> implementation abstraction layer? This particular change would Marco> be rather trivial but I can see this being the start of a road Marco> slime may not want to take.
Marco> [1] - i'm pretty sure i'm not the only person using slime Marco> without emacs, but i can't remeber who it was who said they were Marco> also doing this.
You are definitely not the only one thinking of using SLIME (or parts of it) as a general-purpose tool. I am thinking of using it for moving some of the stuff I'd normally write in Emacs Lisp into CL. Instead of developing my own (buggy) fancy interface, I can simply use what SLIME offers.
--J.