5.1 slime-selector

The slime-selector command is for quickly switching to important buffers: the REPL, SLDB, the Lisp source you were just hacking, etc. Once invoked the command prompts for a single letter to specify which buffer it should display. If a prefix argument is specified then the buffer is shown in the other window. Here are some of the main options:

?

A help buffer listing all slime-selectors’s available buffers. This includes some options of lesser importance, e.g. intended for debugging SLIME, which are not included in this list.

r

The REPL buffer for the current SLIME connection.

d

The most recently activated SLDB buffer for the current connection.

l

The most recently visited lisp-mode source buffer.

s

The *slime-scratch* buffer (see slime-scratch).

c

SLIME connections buffer (see Multiple connections).

n

Cycle to the next Lisp connection (see Multiple connections).

t

SLIME threads buffer (see Multiple connections).

i

The *inferior-lisp* buffer for the current connection.

4

Show buffer in other window. Equivalent to supplying a prefix argument. Prompts again for which buffer to select.

slime-selector doesn’t have a key binding by default but we suggest that you assign it a global one. You can bind it to C-c s like this:

(global-set-key "\C-cs" 'slime-selector)

And then you can switch to the REPL from anywhere with C-c s r.

The macro def-slime-selector-method can be used to define new buffers for slime-selector to find.