In article i84v89$8lt$1@dough.gmane.org, Tamas K Papp tkpapp@gmail.com wrote:
- How should I start? What's the best way to start poking around in
SLIME?
I'm more of printf-style person, so I started out way back when as follows:
Let's say you want to find out how C-c C-m works.
To find out about the emacs side, do C-h k C-c C-m, it will tell you the function name, and give you a link into the elisp source.
To find out about the swank side, perform the command, look into *slime-events* what RPC it calls, grep for it in the *.lisp files.
You'll also see the return value of the RPC in *slime-events*.
Then you can look again what the elisp side does with the return value. I usually use the following function for that purpose:
(defun tcr:debugmsg (msg &rest args) (with-current-buffer (get-buffer-create "*TCR*") (goto-char (point-max)) (insert "\n") (insert (apply #'format msg args))))
Just put (tcr:debugmsg "%S" (some-elisp)) into an elisp function definition, press C-M-x, and redo the command. The output goes to *TCR*.
HTH,
-T.