[Gcl-devel] Re: (Summary view of above)

[Chris Hall]

Camm Maguire <address@hidden> writes:

> Greetings!
> 
> Eric Merritt <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > --- Dennis Decker Jensen <address@hidden>
> > wrote:
> > > Congratulations on getting ILISP to work with GCL! 
> > > Have you
> > > tried SLIME?  GCL has a dbl-mode for debugging you
> > > might be
> > > interested to play with and that needs a loving hand
> > > from
> > > somebody knowing both elisp as well as GCL.
> > 
> >  I was under the impression that there wasn't a gcl
> > backend for slime. I would love to be mistaken on
> > this.
> > 
> 
> Sadly you are not mistaken.  I'd like to get a backend contributed,
> and maybe even debianize slime, but I'm too busy right now.  Someone
> else might get to it first.
> 
> dbl mode works under cltl1, but needs some minor modifications for
> ansi, as the latter changes the break definition.  Should be
> straightforward, but definitely 2.7.x.

Would either of these tasks be suitable as a learning project for
someone such as myself?  I'd be happy to try.

Could anybody point me at some existing docs or other information for
starting in on something like this?

> 
> -- 
> Camm Maguire                                          address@hidden
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