[Ilisp-devel] completer.el

[Luke G. <lu...@bl...>]

Hi guys!

I've just imported a copy of completer.el into SLIME (our
ILISP-a-like). I've got a couple of questions about it.

First, I grabbed the second-newest revision (1.4). The latest adds
this:

  +;; Necessary when loading completer.el, but have not yet loaded ilisp
  +(require 'ilcompat) 

So version 1.4 is stand-alone, but 1.5 depends on another small but
ILISP-specific file. What it seems to want is the definition of
+ilisp-emacs-version+ for this code:

  (not (memq +ilisp-emacs-version-id+
       '(xemacs lucid-19 lucid-19-new)))

But in my copy I replaced this with (not (featurep 'xemacs)), just to
cut the dependency.

Any comments? I don't want installing SLIME to somehow break ILISP.

BTW, is there some sordid history to completer.el and why it didn't
make it into Emacs and XEmacs properly?

Cheers,
Luke