Oops, sorry. Appears as though I misunderstood your question, thinking "console" was also a reference to the REPL. I've grown so used to 'dumping' forms from the Editor buffer into the Listener, it never occurred to me I might want to go in the other direction as well. I'll try looking further into this for LW. BC From: Aleksandar Matijaca [mailto:amatijaca@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 10:08 AM To: toronto-lisp@common-lisp.net Subject: Re: [toronto-lisp] Fwd: Development helpers Since doit-3 "lives" inside the vm via Repl , it seems logical that somehow one should be able to "dump it" to file or to the console etc. Copy into a clipboard would be good too. Sent from my iPhone On 2010-10-07, at 9:58, Brian Connoy <BConnoy@morrisonhershfield.com<mailto:BConnoy@morrisonhershfield.com>> wrote: Hi Aleksandar! Like Paul, I can only speak for LispWorks. While working in the Listener, the "History Search" command can be invoked with ALT+R. In the minibuffer you will be able to enter 'doit-3' and press enter. The DEFUN for 'doit-3' will appear at the prompt. Perhaps there is something similar in other environments? Cheers, Brian Connoy p.s. Sorry, I didn't get to meet you at the last meet. From: Aleksandar Matijaca [mailto:amatijaca@gmail.com<mailto:amatijaca@gmail.com>] Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 10:48 PM To: toronto-lisp@common-lisp.net<mailto:toronto-lisp@common-lisp.net> Subject: [toronto-lisp] Fwd: Development helpers Hi there, first of all Paul and Dave, thanks for replying!! The question can perhaps be best explained with an example: repl=> (defun doit-3 (x) (* 3 x)) repl=> '(some more cool stuff) repl=>'(and more and more) i keep testing and playing around with functions more and more I can certainly run my doit-3 function repl=>(doit-3 4) 12 repl=> and now, I say to myself, - how the heck did I write that doit-3, I forgot, because, I wrote it 20 minutes ago, it obviously exists inside REPL because I can execute it... So, how do I view [dump??] the contents of doit-3 to the screen, or to a file on the disk, so I can invoke an editor and modify doit-3 and then reload it?? I am just interested in learning how to be more productive in a standard software development cycle. Thanks, Alex. On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Paul Tarvydas <tarvydas@visualframeworksinc.com<mailto:tarvydas@visualframeworksinc.com>> wrote:
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. pt _______________________________________________ toronto-lisp mailing list toronto-lisp@common-lisp.net<mailto:toronto-lisp@common-lisp.net> http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/toronto-lisp _______________________________________________ toronto-lisp mailing list toronto-lisp@common-lisp.net<mailto:toronto-lisp@common-lisp.net> http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/toronto-lisp