Hi there,
A bit of a noob question - let's say that I have an interactive Repl session that has been going on for about an hour or so, and all of a sudden I wish to modify a defun I wrote a while ago. What is the easiest way first to show that code on the console, modify it, and load it back into Repl ?
I am just trying to come up with a comfortable development environment for myself.
There is something called "(dribble)" which records a transcript of your session. I've never used it.
With LW, I typically use the editor to type into a file (buffer) and compile-load the buffer, or ^E one form or defun. Undo can get you back to an earlier state. I find that if I'm experimenting, I do it a function at a time, until I'm happy with it, so I never have to go back a full hour.
I take it that most free lisp users use emacs+slime. You split the emacs window into two, one half shows your edit buffer, the other shows a lisp interaction. A keystroke sends your current form to the interaction and you see the result in the interaction buffer.
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