kadie@uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu (11/12/87)
I have been trying for about a month to use Sun (Lucid)
Common Lisp Development Environment (version 2.02).
As anyone using a Lucid Development Lisp figured out how to:
(Editor)
Use the function keys -- It seems that the windowing system
ignores the function keys of the Sun console completely.
Evaluate a region of a editor buffer and see the results
-- I can evaluate, but it doesn't display the results.
(Lisp)
Handle errors -- To quote from Steele p. 428
"...Common Lisp provides ... no standard way to handle errors. Of
course a complete Lisp ssytem requires error-handling mechanisms."
"An implementation may also choose to provide means (such as the ERRSET
special form ...) for a program to trap all errors and prevent the
debugger from stepping in for certain errors.
Load files without giving a path name -- To quote again from Steele p. 188
"REQUIRE module-name &optional pathname
...
If the pathname argument is NIL or is not provided, the system will
attempt to determine, in some system-dependent manner, which files
to load.
Compile only those Lisp files that have changed -- Like UNIX's Make
and Symbolics/TI's system.
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Carl Kadie
Inductive Learning Group
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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