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How to save all functions I entered in LispBox/Slime?

Situation: I entered several functions while working with REPL in Emacs. Problem: There is junk like "; Evaluation aborted" when I'm simply saving buffer. What I want: clear descriptions of all the functions I entered in their latest revision.

Can I do that? Thanks.

Solution

  • I agree that the best work flow method is to write your code in a separate buffer and evaluate in that, rather than enter the functions in the repl.

    Assuming you have gone the repl way, I guess, C. Martin's solution to save the repl log and manually go through it are your only options.

    If you entered the functions and vars into a separate package, you could go through the symbols in the package to help you decide what you want to keep.

    E.g. to see all symbols created in the cl-user package:

    (let ((p (find-package :cl-user)))
  (loop
     for s being the symbols in p
     when (eq p (symbol-package s))
     do (format t "~a~%" s)))