From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/7014 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?S=C3=A9bastien_Vauban?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Slime and Emacs Lisp Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 17:13:23 GMT Organization: Sebastien Vauban Message-ID: <87u095e2bu.fsf@missioncriticalit.com> References: <8764lleqgk.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1144431639 17835 80.91.229.2 (7 Apr 2006 17:40:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 17:40:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 07 19:40:36 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FRuwY-0005rQ-6t for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Apr 2006 19:40:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FRuwX-0008FV-OI for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Apr 2006 13:40:21 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!nntp.theplanet.net!inewsm1.nntp.theplanet.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.stueberl.de!newsgate.cistron.nl!skynet.be!skynet.be!hoboe2bl2.telenet-ops.be!nntp.telenet.be!kwabbernoot.telenet-ops.be!phobos.telenet-ops.be.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus X-Www-site: Under construction... User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:qcV2oYQ/AE0quFMVIpJbYvfq6Kc= Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.195.176.134 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@telenet.be Original-X-Trace: phobos.telenet-ops.be 1144430003 84.195.176.134 (Fri, 07 Apr 2006 19:13:23 MEST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 19:13:23 MEST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:77195 Original-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:7014 Archived-At: Hello, >> But my ultimate goal would be to try enjoying all the features >> of Slime for debugging Emacs Lisp code I want to maintain... >> >> And, *not* being an expert at all in both languages, I don't >> know if their differences are so big it's purely impossible to >> do what I want, or if it's still possible to debug Emacs Lisp >> code with Slime/CLisp? > > Please note this is not the right group for this question. Try > gnu.emacs.help. Sorry, you're right. Stupid mistake. > Slime is designed for working with common Lisp, which is a different > beastie to Emacs Lisp. Emacs has a pretty good in-built debugging > capabilities and a much closer integration than you would get with > slime even if you could get slime to work with it. Can you be a bit more specific about which environment you use to do so? For example, how do you get the display of a function's arguments list in the minibuffer? Very very useful. How do you localize source code? Ctags, Etags, ...? Thanks for the help, Seba -- Sébastien Vauban