R. Mattes writes:

Hello list,

i have some questions about slime's typeout frames. First, is there a way to configure the appearance of the typeout frames short of editing 'slime.el'? I'd like to customize the background color as well as disable the statusbar. Maybe there's a chance to defcustom slime-typeout-frame-properties instead of devar-ing it?

I use something like this:

(setq slime-typeout-frame-properties '((width . 40) (height . 10) (minibuffer . nil) (menu-bar-lines . nil) (name . "SLIME Typeout") (background-color . "midnightblue") (auto-raise . t) (top . 0) (right . 0) (border-color . "white") ))

cheers, --ap

"R. Mattes" rm@mh-freiburg.de writes:

i have some questions about slime's typeout frames. First, is there a way to configure the appearance of the typeout frames short of editing 'slime.el'? I'd like to customize the background color as well as disable the statusbar. Maybe there's a chance to defcustom slime-typeout-frame-properties instead of devar-ing it?

I don't know much about this. And what I know is probably wrong :)

Second, is it possible to have the compiler messages show up in the typeout frame instead of poping up in (not so) small tooltip windows. I often encounter huge compiler messages that cause tooltips the size of my sceen :-)

Hehe, I wonder if you are using SBCL. Maybe you should have a talk with your friendly neighborhood SBCL hacker.

We could make tooltips optional, but I don't want to, because we use the rather nice trick that the "help-echo" text property can be used for tooltips and ordinary messages. If we change that, we have to use a different property and duplicate some code. It's a lot easier if you simply disable tooltip mode.

There's no ready-made way to display compiler messages in the typeout frame. Perhaps slime-list-compiler-notes is good enough for your. If not, you can configure slime-compilation-finished-hook. Look at some of the available defaults for examples.

Helmut.