In article <i84v89$8lt$1@dough.gmane.org>, Tamas K Papp <tkpapp@gmail.com> wrote:
3. 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.