macrostep support for SLY
sly-macrostep is a SLY contrib for expanding CL macros right
inside the source file, like so:
This extension is the work of Jon Oddie, the
original author of the excellent macrostep.el library, and
Luís Oliveira.
I just ported it to SLY with some minimal renaming and tweaks.
Perform the usual MELPA setup and then select
sly-macrostep for installation from the package menu or from M-x package-install.
Once it's done, M-x sly should now bring up a macrostep-enabled
SLY.
In .lisp files you can now use C-c M-e or M-x macrostep-expand
to expand a macro.
Since this is an external contrib with both Elisp and Lisp parts,
merely loading the Elisp will have little effect. The contrib has to
be registered in SLY's sly-contribs variable for SLY to take care of
loading the Lisp side on demand.
For convenience, the sly-macrostep-autoloads file takes care
of this automatically. So the following setup in your ~/.emacs or
~/.emacs.d/init/el init file should be enough:
;;; regular SLY setup
(setq inferior-lisp-program "/path/to/your/preferred/lisp")
(add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/sly")
(require 'sly-autoloads)
(add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/sly-macrostep")
(require 'sly-macrostep-autoloads)In case you already have SLY loaded and running, you might have to
M-x sly-setup and M-x sly-enable-contrib to enable it.