* Madhu [2008-12-20 11:32+0100] writes:
The specifics of the history behaviour are not relevant. But FTR they were discussed in Jan 2007. I suggested splitting on 12 Aug 2007 in the "[RfC] Reorganization of source" thread. Since then the contrib packages have been moved out. Now once again I believe that a start can be made in cutting down SLOC in slime.el by moving out the history component and completion component.
It is not hard to move the history functions to a sepearate file. The first time I did it, I posted a message on this mailing list on 13 Jul 2007 with the "load me over patch" to get a different behaviour . But this is a pointless and time-wasting exercise to repeat unless you agree to support it, like you factored out contrib.
I think a REPL without history would be rather painful. It's probably the best if I move the entire REPL to contrib.
Helmut.