"Sean O'Rourke" <sorourke@cs.ucsd.edu> writes:
Take 2 on adding eldoc support to SLIME. Things to note:
- support for GNU version >= 21.3 using hook ``eldoc-print-current-symbol-info-function''; older versions use advice. - 2 approaches to caching arglist lookups; see variable ``slime-cache-type'' for details. - avoids interning symbols when looking for functions that don't exist. - function ``slime-documentation'' to display documentation rather than description for thing-at-point.
Try it out! Comments welcome.
Groovy! I've committed this, but I hacked it a bit - particularly I took out the use of eldoc in favour of post-command-hook. The advice and version-specific tests give me the willies, since supporting Emacs20, Emacs21, and XEmacs 21 is already a fair bit of work and I don't want to tempt fate by relying on internal details :-) Now there's a function `slime-autodoc' that is called after every Emacs command in a slime-mode buffer (but only if `slime-autodoc-mode' is set to non-nil), and its job is to try to print some useful information. Currently it prints the arglist of any function-call at point. Is this equivalent to what we got from eldoc, or did I miss something? Anyway, my version isn't perfect, but it's integrated and should serve as a foothold for further hacking. One nice thing that eldoc does and this doesn't is to distinguish between function and variable references in the source to lookup the appropriate documentation - very nice. Cheers, Luke