Hello fellow hackers,
I've been using slime for some time now, and I /really/ like it. It feels much more integrated than ilisp, and has several nice advantages. I like the ability to run my lisp independently of emacs - that way when emacs goes down (I'm using emacs CVS, and it does happen from time to time) my session isn't lost, and I can also logout/login without disrupting my lisp session. It seems that a few weeks back, SLIME switched to using a file to communicate the port that swank would be listening on, and swank:start-server started taking this as a required argument. Can I request that swank:start-server go back to not requiring an argument and starting the server on the default port - and possibly allow the choice of another port somehow? It might also be nice to include a simple swank .asd file like the one I've attached to make it easier to start the swank server in a fresh lisp.
I've also noticed that SLIME seems to like to pop up the REPL in the current frame when sending definitions via C-M-x, and resize it if it's already active. I like keeping the REPL in another window, and would request that SLIME not touch or rearrange anything unless the slime repl is not visible.
Lastly, it seems that slime prints its results from the CL-USER package, regarldess of the user's current package in the REPL. Since it obviously knows the current package well enough to include it in the REPL prompt, would it be possible to make it print output from that package?
Thanks!
-- Brian Mastenbrook bmastenb@cs.indiana.edu http://cs.indiana.edu/~bmastenb/
Brian Mastenbrook bmastenb@cs.indiana.edu writes:
Can I request that swank:start-server go back to not requiring an argument and starting the server on the default port - and possibly allow the choice of another port somehow?
I've exported the `swank:create-swank-server' command. This takes a port number as argument and starts a swank server there. If you give 0 for the port, it will take a random available port. The return value is the port that's actually being listened on.
Sound right?
It might also be nice to include a simple swank .asd file like the one I've attached to make it easier to start the swank server in a fresh lisp.
Good idea, done. I added comments in the file describing how to fire up the swank server and connect.
I've also noticed that SLIME seems to like to pop up the REPL in the current frame when sending definitions via C-M-x, and resize it if it's already active. I like keeping the REPL in another window, and would request that SLIME not touch or rearrange anything unless the slime repl is not visible.
Done - if *slime-repl* is already visible in any frame, the window configuration is left as-is. Possibly this should be configurable, but I'm not sure so I'll wait until someone complains or commits otherwise :-)
Lastly, it seems that slime prints its results from the CL-USER package, regarldess of the user's current package in the REPL. Since it obviously knows the current package well enough to include it in the REPL prompt, would it be possible to make it print output from that package?
Fixed.
Cheers, Luke
-
Brian Mastenbrook -
Luke Gorrie