Today, Luke Gorrie luke@bluetail.com wrote:
Questions:
Which Lisp versions do you use SLIME with?
SBCL, more-or-less recent CVS versions and CMUCL 18e
Which Emacs versions?
not-quite-current CVS (21.3.50.4)
How well does SLIME work for you?
It started out working great (I switched from ILISP after the non-mt SBCL interface was done), and it got better and better. For me, it works better and more consistently good than most packages that are shipped with emacs.
What bugs (reproducible or otherwise) or missing features annoy you?
Just a brain dump:
As Thomas F. Burdick said, it's not very useful to have a buffer pop up containing only one STYLE-WARNING (redefining FOO) but leaving out the compiler notes. I know that sometimes it's good to be informed that you're just redefining stuff, But when I'm using compile-defun, I know that I'm redefining the function. C-c C-k is a different story, though (-:
A condition inspector would be very good to have.
The window that pops up when you C-c C-k (compile-and-load-file) should structure the conditions into conditions raised at compile-time and at load-time.
And this one's here because I've grown to like this feature in eclipse (lets me take a break from coding from time to time (-;): A simple way of running RT tests and looking at the results - preferably with a green bar. (-:
Is there some packaging system (e.g. Debian) that you would like to see SLIME 1.0 bundled with? If so, do you know how to coordinate this?
I guess the answer to that one is "as many as possible". Spread the Viru^WSLIME!
If you said anything negative above then please say something nice here to make us feel good:
SLIME is a really great development environment for reading, writing and debugging programs interactively. It's fun to use it, and it makes for a very nice demo of how programming lisp feels like (-:
Thanks for the great work,