sly-stepper is an external contrib for SLY that was created
from sly-hello-world
It's in serious need of a proper README.
Anyway, it:
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is completely self-contained (doesn't need to be bundled with SLY)
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has both Emacs-Lisp and Common-Lisp counterparts
See
sly-stepper.elandslynk-stepper.lisp -
has automated Travis tests already in place
See the file
.travis.yml. There are some sample unit tests for this contrib using SBCL and CCL there. -
is easily added to MELPA
Just ask make a pull request to MELPA and ask for your recipe to be added to
recipes/. Use this template:
(sly-stepper :fetcher github
:repo "capitaomorte/sly-stepper"
:files (:defaults
"*.lisp"
"*.asd"))The remainder of this README.md file is itself a template for the
one that should be included in a contrib.
Perform the usual MELPA setup and then select
sly-stepper for installation from the package menu or from M-x package-install.
Once it's done, M-x sly should now bring up a stepper enabled
SLY.
In .lisp files you can now use M-x sly-stepper to be informed
about the stepperness of your Lisp.
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-stepper-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-stepper")
(require 'sly-stepper-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.
sly-stepper should now kick in in Lisp buffers.