Jan Rychter jan@rychter.com writes:
Seriously, SLIME has already gotten to the point where it's more useful than ILisp for me,
I switched to Slime for awhile, but switched back to Ilisp for the moment for two reasons:
- stability. This is probably a red herring, since you can evidently just leave a Lisp up and running and reconnect after a crash; it's also transient, since Slime is improving by leaps and bounds (infinitely faster than Ilisp, one might say;).
- Usability details. The big one here is completion -- Ilisp has a couple of completion features that Slime lacks: filename completion in strings, and multiword expansion (e.g. "m-w-e<tab>" -> "multi-word-expansion"). Is there any reason not to pillage Ilisp for these nice touches?
If I get some free time over the holidays, I'll try to address these two issues with some patches, and get back to happily using Slime. It's got a lot of potential, but is still to young for someone who just needs to get his Lisp work done with as few hassles as possible.
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