SLIME, Lisp, Editing - the lost slime-close-parens-at-point
Once upon a time there was a rich SLIME version that had all bateries included in a few files. Now this old, old version is long gone. The Powers Of SLIME deleted the function slime-close-parens-at-point whose use and benefit is described in this blog post of Bill Clementson . For those requiring this exact feature here's the original code of that function: (setq slime-close-parens-limit 16) (defun slime-close-parens-at-point () "Close parenthesis at point to complete the top-level-form. Simply inserts ')' characters at point until `beginning-of-defun' and `end-of-defun' execute without errors, or `slime-close-parens-limit' is exceeded." (interactive) (loop for i from 1 to slime-close-parens-limit until (save-excursion (slime-beginning-of-defun) (ignore-errors (slime-end-of-defun) t)) do (insert ")"))) In addition to putting this in my .emacs file I have also the following line in it: (define-key slime-mode-map (kbd "
