Bruno Loff bruno.loff@gmail.com writes:

Hey :) I'm trying to make a plugin for the Eclipse (www.eclipse.org) platform to work with common lisp. I was wondering if it was possible for me to use Swank to interact with lisp, or if it's too tightly integrated to the way emacs works.

If it isn't, is there any documentation on Swank? I'm not even sure if it's what I'm looking for: a layer that facilitates compilation, evaluation and debugging for a lisp-using process.

swank communicates with emacs over a socket, so it's not strictly tied to emacs as far as the communication goes. however it may contain some emacs'isms which makes it difficult to integrate into eclipse's way of doing things. to get an idea of what emacs and swank send back and forth look at the contents of the *slime-events* buffer and set *log-events* to t and see what's going on.