slime meta-dot in ASDF sources [cross-post from ASDF-devel]

[The main ASDF dev Robert Goldman answered this partly in ASDF-devel mailing list, but in doing so led me to believe the SLIME devs would know more, hence the crosspost. -MHD] How do ASDF developers using emacs with SLIME deal with doing meta-dot (meta-.) on function names in ASDF sources. Out of the box, mostly when I meta-. just goes to one big top-level form that starts like this (with-upgradability () (define-condition invalid-source-registry (invalid-configuration warning) Thanks for clues, -Mark

The macros like with-upgradability transform the code erasing any links to the original source, making it impossible to locate. On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 8:47 AM Mark H. David <mhd@yv.org> wrote:
[The main ASDF dev Robert Goldman answered this partly in ASDF-devel mailing list, but in doing so led me to believe the SLIME devs would know more, hence the crosspost. -MHD]
How do ASDF developers using emacs with SLIME deal with doing meta-dot (meta-.) on function names in ASDF sources. Out of the box, mostly when I meta-. just goes to one big top-level form that starts like this
(with-upgradability () (define-condition invalid-source-registry (invalid-configuration warning) Thanks for clues, -Mark
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