3.2.5 Inspector commands

The SLIME inspector is a Emacs-based alternative to the standard INSPECT function. The inspector presents objects in Emacs buffers using a combination of plain text, hyperlinks to related objects.

The inspector can easily be specialized for the objects in your own programs. For details see the the inspect-for-emacs generic function in swank-backend.lisp.

C-c I

M-x slime-inspect

Inspect the value of an expression entered in the minibuffer.

The standard commands available in the inspector are:

RET

M-x slime-inspector-operate-on-point

If point is on a value then recursivly call the inspcetor on that value. If point is on an action then call that action.

d

M-x slime-inspector-describe

Describe the slot at point.

v

M-x slime-inspector-toggle-verbose

Toggle between verbose and terse mode. Default is determined by `swank:*inspector-verbose*'.

l

M-x slime-inspector-pop

Go back to the previous object (return from RET).

n

M-x slime-inspector-next

The inverse of l. Also bound to SPC.

q

M-x slime-inspector-quit

Dismiss the inspector buffer.

M-RET

M-x slime-inspector-copy-down

Store the value under point in the variable `*'. This can then be used to access the object in the REPL.