* Mariano Montone [2009-12-04 17:45+0100] writes:

Hi!

Is there a better way of inspecting large strings than what is currently available?

It happens to me a lot that when an error happens, the condition raised has a meaningful string for me as one of its parameters or as a description. Unfortunately it is too large, so slime (or the lisp backend) doesn't display it all. So I decide to inspect it, but the simple character array inspector shows me the list of characters instead of the string in a readable form.

Is there a way of getting away with this?

Pressing p in the inspector calls print on the object and displays the output in a fresh buffer. It also not that hard to write your own command to print the condition in a format that you like.

Helmut