Luke Gorrie luke@bluetail.com writes:
Which Lisp versions do you use SLIME with?
SBCL 0.8.10, Darwin
Which Emacs versions?
CVS
How well does SLIME work for you?
Very.
What bugs (reproducible or otherwise) or missing features annoy you?
This is really more of an SBCL problem, but since SLIME reports compilation errors and warnings afterwards, it would be nice to be able to have it suppress SBCL's extreme chattiness in the REPL buffer when doing a compile from a lisp buffer. It would probably speed things up as well, since Emacs would no longer have to fontify all those notes.
For some features, SLIME reinvents wheels that come standard with newer Emacs (i.e. "slime-autodoc" is a reimplementation of Eldoc with its local hook; the notes tree vs. David Ponce's excellent tree-widget package). It would reduce duplication of both development and ~/.emacs configuration to use these existing facilities.
Other than that, (1) it works amazingly well, (2) SLIME development is quite active, and (3) it's Lisp and I've got the source, so obviously these problems aren't serious enough to motivate me to fix them.
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?
Nope. It's not the GNU Emacs way...
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