package-local-nicknames support

[remexre]

Right now, I don't get type hints or completion when a symbol uses a p-l-n name.

[kovisoft]

Could you please give me an example code snippet? I'd like to check how it is handled in Emacs/Slime, what is the communication between Emacs and the Swank server.

[remexre]

(uiop:define-package :example
  (:use :cl)
  (:local-nicknames (#:a :alexandria)))
(in-package :example)

(a:define-constant foo :foo)

This does need a new enough UIOP; iiuc, 3.3.4 for SBCL, 3.3.5 for other impls.

[kovisoft]

Thank you for the example. I played with it a little bit in emacs+slime, and it turned out that emacs+slime is sending swank:completions to the swank server, while vim+slimv is sending either swank:fuzzy-completions or swank:simple-completions (depending on the value of g:slimv_simple_compl). This might be a change in slime, because as I recall, older versions used swank:simple-completions as well, that's why I implemented it the same way in slimv.

I'm going to check how to add swank:completions to slimv. Maybe it will be a new option. I'll come back to you when I have a solution.

[stag-enterprises]

Is there any progress update on this?

[kovisoft]

Sorry for the big delay. I have fixed it in commit a7a4715
The default behavior is now to use swank:completions that handles local-nicknamed packages.

[stag-enterprises]

@kovisoft Thank you so much! Appreciate your work. This can probably be closed now.

[stag-enterprises]

Update: It looks like while autocomplete for local-nicknames works, there is no argument hinting. When typing the name of a function under a local-nicknames package, the little text shown on the bottom of the screen with the argument list does not show.

[kovisoft]

It seems that emacs uses swank:autodoc for getting the argument list, and this one handles local-nicknames as well. Therefore in commit bbdb7a4 I replaced operator-arglist with autodoc for .lisp files. Unfortunately autodoc is not supported for all file types (e.g. it does not work in swank-mit-scheme.scm).

[stag-enterprises]

ty! for sbcl it looks like everything works fine.