* Mark H. David [2009-11-17 09:09+0100] writes:
I never really heard of anyone intentionally running SLIME without running the REPL.
Now you have: I don't use it.
I thought the REPL was the essence of using SLIME.
No, it's not. Using Slime was always supposed to feel like programming Elisp which rarely involves a repl.
At least, I think it's the most common way people run SLIME. If I'm at all close to right, I would still like to see it there on that main installation doc page.
By not putting it there, we making it crystal clear that the REPL is a contrib and separated from Slime.
Couldn't it shown as an example along with explaining that it's a "contrib", but it's the most commonly used one, and then sending them off to the contrib doc for extra information? That's what I'd like to see.
There was already a link to the contrib section. I added one in the *inferior-lisp* paragraph and recommend slime-repl and slime-fancy in the contrib section.
Helmut