* mbaringer [2008-02-05 13:06+0100] writes:
(save-excursion (when (or (re-search-backward regexp nil t) (re-search-forward regexp nil t)) - (match-string-no-properties 2))))) + ;; package name can be a string designator, convert it to a string. + (slime-eval `(cl:string (cl:second (cl:read-from-string ,(match-string-no-properties 0)))) + "COMMON-LISP-USER")))))
This is bad style for several reasons: 1. slime-eval should only be used in situations where it's impossible to use slime-eval-async e.g. for completion because the control structure is fixed by Emacs built-ins. 2. the argument to slime-eval should look like (swank:function arg1 arg2 ..) where each argument is a literal and not a to-be-evaluated form 3. it uses more than 80 columns 4. it makes a frequently used function much slower 5. it doesn't handle read-errors 6. it interns random symbols 7. it does useless work, because the result of slime-search-buffer-package will be used either with guess-package or slime-pretty-package-name. That's quite a lot for a two line change :-) Helmut.