9.4 slime-autodoc-mode

Autodoc mode is an additional minor-mode for automatically showing information about symbols near the point. For function names the argument list is displayed, and for global variables, the value. This is a clone of eldoc-mode for Emacs Lisp.

The mode can be enabled by default in the slime-setup call of your ~/.emacs:

     (slime-setup '(slime-autodoc))

M-x slime-arglist NAME

Show the argument list of the function NAME.

M-x slime-autodoc-mode

Toggles autodoc-mode on or off according to the argument, and toggles the mode when invoked without argument.

If the variable slime-use-autodoc-mode is set (default), Emacs starts a timer, otherwise the information is only displayed after pressing SPC.