Re: Slime and Emacs Lisp

[Sébastien Vauban]

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

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Sébastien Vauban