[slime-devel] Re: [Patch] Improvements for arglist and slime-complete-form

Matthias Koeppe mkoeppe+slime@mail.math.uni-magdeburg.de writes:

Luke Gorrie luke@synap.se writes:

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I know it's late in the game to be asking this, but what's the complete-form command really used for?

I type an operator that has a complicated arglist. Slime-complete-form fills in a template for the arglist. I can C-M-f over the formal arguments and replace them with the actual args. I can C-M-k unneeded keyword arguments. When the actual args are complicated, I often let-bind them to the formal argument name instead, so I don't even have to modify the inserted template.

I committed the changes. I don't really understand the need for the command but I can believe it's one of those things that's obvious to CLOS programmers :-)

Cheers, Luke