* Helmut Eller m263lbuwg4.fsf@common-lisp.net : Wrote on Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:28:43 +0100: | | I think a REPL without history would be rather painful. It's probably | the best if I move the entire REPL to contrib.
SLIME without a REPL is even more painful. I'd not suggest making the REPL a second class citizen (by moving it to contrib). Factoring out all the REPL would not help solve the use case problem (with repl history) I was hoping such a rearchitecture would address. At minimum it would be addressed by adding a (require 'slime-repl-history) in slime.el
You won't find a bigger fan of the every-project-should-be-a-single-file philosophy than me --- but I would make the exception here. SLIME (like org) is conceptually big enough to warrant dismemberment into pieces which would then be REQUIRE'd in the body of slime.el after some engineering of load-path.
-- Madhu