Re: [slime-devel] slime's functionality for parsing def forms

On Thu, Nov 22 2012, Mirko Vukovic wrote:

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I am looking for slime's functionality to parse the `def' statement. It would be nice to obtain the lambda form as well. Where in the code should I look?

SLIME does very little parsing of this kind. slime-defun-at-point or slime-symbol-at-point is as sophisticated as it gets.

Or, maybe there is an existing elisp package that does that?

If you have the source of your definition as string you can pass it to the Emacs Lisp read function. That works quite well, as long as you don't use Common Lisp specific reader macros. The functions down-list/ forward-list/up-list are also quite useful to parse Lisp code.

Helmut