Peter Seibel <peter@javamonkey.com> writes:

So it seems that when I compile in Allegro I don't get the fancy outline view of errors and warnings that I get in SBCL. Is there a deep reason for that or just a SMOP? If the latter, roughly what needs to be done?

The support is there, this is just a UI thing. Usually we only display that buffer if there were compiler messages that lacked source information -- since we don't annotate them in the source we need to show them somewhere. You can customize `slime-compilation-finished-hook' to choose whether to always/never/sometimes get that buffer. You can also pull it up explicitly with `M-x slime-list-compiler-notes' to see the notes from the most recent compilation. I've redone the customization groups to include more variables and have a tree-structure now. I also did documentation/cleanup of the first 2000 lines of slime.el and would appreciate feedback (from anyone) on whether it makes things clearer. Cheers, Luke