Very Computer

Thanks to everyone who responded to my query -- despite the typo
whereby I said I was doing (VMEM.PURE.STATE) when I was really doing
(VMEM.PURE.STATE T)!  The problem is now solved:  It seems that some
piece of code in the machine was fouling things up:  even after
setting VMEM.PURE.STATE, it would let me logout, but then fail to come
back in a particularly * way.  At the time, I was trying to
compile PCL; I've given that up, and now everything is fine.

And now another question: it seems that SEdit's formatting is
controlled by the function GET-FORMAT, which is SETF-able.  Thus I can
say:

    (setf (sedit::get-format 'if)
       '(:indent (2) :inline t :args (:keyword nil)))

To get the sort of formatting I like for IF.  Question: does there
exist any description of the full syntax of the formatting
expressions?  I've not been able to find one in the manuals, and it's
fairly painful trying to work it out by example.

--tim

There is an exported defining function sedit:def-list-format that takes args:
    name {doc} &key indent args inline miser last sublists

I would be very grateful if someone could produce a documentation for
this!

There is also an alist sedit:*indent-alist* that looks like it
contains definitions of how different indentations should be done.

As these symbols and also get-format are exported, they are meant to
be used, aren't they???

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Ulf Dahlen
Work:  Dept of Computer & Info Science, University of Linkoping, Sweden

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