editors/sly 1.0.43.20240809_1 DragonFly

Sylvester the Cat's Common Lisp IDE for Emacs

System: DragonFly
Repository: DPorts
Maintainer: [email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License: PD
Categories: editors, elisp
Package size: 1545.3 KiB, 4429.3 KiB installed

Description

SLY is a fork of SLIME. We track its bugfixes, particularly to the implementation backends. All SLIME's familiar features (debugger, inspector, xref, etc...) are still available, with improved overall UX.

SLY's highlights are:

A full-featured REPL based on Emacs's comint.el. Everything can be copied to the REPL.
Stickers, or live code annotations that record values as code traverses them.
Flex-style completion out-of-the-box, using Emacs's completion API. Company, Helm, and other supported natively, no plugin required.
An interactive Trace Dialog.
Cleanly ASDF-loaded by default, including contribs, enabled out-of-the-box.
Multiple inspectors and multiple REPLs.
"Presentations" replaced by interactive backreferences which highlight the object and remain stable throughout the REPL session.
Support for NAMED-READTABLES, macrostep.el and quicklisp.
A portable, annotation-based stepper in early but functional prototype stage.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 1.0.43.20240809, as upstream numbers it.

System

Port

Version

Vulnerabilities

Status

Maintainer

Last update

DragonFly

editors/sly

1.0.43.20240809_1 newest

none known

[email protected]

FreeBSD

editors/sly

1.0.43.20240809_3 newest

none known

[email protected]

HardenedBSD

editors/sly

1.0.43.20240809_3 newest

no data

[email protected]

GhostBSD

editors/sly

1.0.43.20240809_3 newest

no data

[email protected]

Install

Binary package:

pkg install sly

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/editors/sly && make install clean

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

graph LR
  me["editors/sly"]
  u0["editors/sly-asdf"] --> me
  u1["editors/sly-named-readtables"] --> me
  u2["editors/sly-quicklisp"] --> me
  me --> d0["editors/emacs"]
  me --> d1["print/indexinfo"]
  classDef this fill:#ab2b28,color:#ffffff,stroke:#ab2b28
  class me this

Dependencies

Run dependencies 2

Required by 3

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts: none
Flavors: sly-emacs_nox-1.0.43.20240809_1, sly-emacs_canna-1.0.43.20240809_1, sly-emacs_devel-1.0.43.20240809_1, sly-emacs_wayland-1.0.43.20240809_1, sly-emacs_devel_nox-1.0.43.20240809_1

Message after installing

To enable autoloading of SLY, add this to some Emacs init file:
(require 'sly-autoloads)

You should specify some Lisp implementation. This works for both SLY and SLIME:
(setq inferior-lisp-program "path_to_your_lisp_binary")
SLY however has convenient specific variables for more complex
configurations. E.g.:
(setq sly-default-lisp 'sbcl
      sly-lisp-implementations '((sbcl ("sbcl"))))
Please see their documentation.

Contribs in `sly-contribs' list are automatically loaded and enabled (and those
not in it are disabled) each time a new session is launched, or `sly-setup' is
called. If you define `sly-contribs' in some initialization file, be sure to
include sly-fancy in it (instead, you can add to the list using `add-to-list',
after the `require' above).

If you just want to immediately enable a contrib, you can instead use
`sly-enable-contrib', but be aware that the effect will be temporary. It will
last up to the next connection established or `sly-setup' call, unless you add
the contrib to `sly-contribs' in the meantime.