[slime-devel] Re: [Patch] Improvements for arglist and slime-complete-form

[Luke Gorrie]

Matthias Koeppe <mkoeppe+slime at mail.math.uni-magdeburg.de> writes:

> Luke Gorrie <luke at synap.se> writes:
> 
> > I know it's late in the game to be asking this, but what's the
> > complete-form command really used for?
> 
> I type an operator that has a complicated arglist.
> Slime-complete-form fills in a template for the arglist.  I can C-M-f
> over the formal arguments and replace them with the actual args.  I
> can C-M-k unneeded keyword arguments.  When the actual args are
> complicated, I often let-bind them to the formal argument name
> instead, so I don't even have to modify the inserted template.  

I committed the changes. I don't really understand the need for the
command but I can believe it's one of those things that's obvious to
CLOS programmers :-)

Cheers,
Luke