* Chris Kim [2010-05-19 08:15+0200] writes:
Hi, all,
I've been using Slime on top of Franz ACL for quite a while. My experience with Slime is very positive and I like Slime better in every aspects except in following situations.
1. Slime debugger: It prints bunch of Slime (swank: ..... ) relatedmessages that I'm not interested. It's always hard to trying to comb through messages that I'm interested. How can I turn Slime related messages off?
Slime frames are either at the top end or the bottom end of the stack. Those on the bottom shouldn't be a problem. To hide the frames on the top Slime needs to guess in which frame the error occurred and that's not always perfect (ie. it shows too many frames). Have a look at the function FIND-TOPFRAME in swank-allegro.lisp. That's where the decision is made. Improvements welcome.
- While debugging, evaulating expression does not print anything but only
the retuned result. Can I have it print to the standard output, i.e., console?
The debugger doesn't change *standard-output*. The output is probably in the *inferior-lisp* buffer or the *slime-repl* buffer or you forgot to call FORCE-OUTPUT. If you connect to a remote server (or similar) then the output will be written to whatever *standard-output* is connected. You may be interested in the slime-redirect-inferior-output command which redirects the output which would normally go to *inferior-lisp* to the *slime-repl* buffer.
- Lack of REPL command: Franz Eli supports REPL commands, for
example, ":proc" for listing processes, ":pa" to change package and so on. Is there way to add them in?
It's a bit different in Slime: if you type ",in" you can change the package. There a few more of those "shortcuts" and you can add your own with defslime-repl-shortcut.
Helmut