There's something I've been wondering about. In Slime, in the REPL buffer, you can click on a presentation, and the thing you click on gets inserted into the buffer. So this is really nice when some object that does not have a readable printed representation gets printed.

But you can also use it for things that DO have a readable printed representation, such as a list of fixnums.

So far so good, but the problem is that the semantics of these two cases are different, because in the first case Lisp sees the object itself, whereas in the second case Lisp reads and evaluates the object. No eval in the first case, eval in the second case. The fact that the command does something different for these two cases makes it confusing for me.

Does this bother anyone else?

I would like it better if, in the second case, it inserted a quote, so that the semantics was always the same. (You could always go back and delete the quote if you really want evaluation.)