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Contents

Preface

1 Introduction

1.1 Major tools

1.1.1 The Listener

1.1.2 The Editor

1.1.3 The Class Browser

1.1.4 The Output Browser

1.1.5 The Inspector

1.1.6 The Object Clipboard

2 A Short Tutorial

2.1 Starting the environment

2.2 Creating a Listener

2.3 Using the Debugger

2.4 Viewing output

2.5 Inspecting objects using the Inspector

2.6 Examining classes in the Class Browser

2.7 Switching between windows

2.8 Summary

3 Common Features

3.1 Displaying tool windows

3.1.1 Displaying existing windows

3.1.2 Iconifying existing windows

3.1.3 Displaying tools using the mouse

3.1.4 Displaying tools using the keyboard

3.1.4.1 Tool accelerator modifier keys

3.1.4.2 Tool accelerator keys

3.1.4.3 Switching between tool windows

3.1.5 Re-using tool windows

3.1.5.1 Global control of re-use

3.1.5.2 Per-window control of re-use

3.1.6 Toolbar configurations

3.1.7 Copying windows

3.1.8 Closing windows

3.1.9 Updating windows

3.2 Setting preferences

3.2.1 General options

3.2.1.1 The window options

3.2.1.2 Controlling completion behavior

3.2.1.3 Quitting the environment

3.2.1.4 Automatic filters on dialogs

3.2.1.5 Automatic use of Find Definitions view

3.2.1.6 Initialization file

3.2.2 Configuring the editor emulation

3.2.2.1 Choosing the key input style

3.2.2.2 Specifying a Meta key

3.2.2.3 Effect of the specified Meta key

3.2.2.4 Setting the cursor blink rate

3.2.3 Setting the editor font, color and other style attributes

3.2.3.1 Setting the text style attributes

3.2.3.2 Controlling parenthesis coloring

3.2.4 Setting the default encodings

3.3 Performing editing functions

3.3.1 Undoing changes

3.3.2 Using the clipboard

3.3.3 Using the Object operations with the clipboard

3.3.4 Selecting text and objects

3.3.5 Searching for text and objects

3.4 The Break gesture

3.5 The history list

3.5.1 Repeating events from the history list

3.5.2 Editing the history list

3.6 Operating on files

3.7 Displaying packages

3.7.1 Specifying a package

3.8 Performing operations on selected objects

3.8.1 Operations available

3.9 Using different views

3.9.1 Sorting items in views

3.10 Tracing symbols from tools

3.11 Linking tools together

3.12 Filtering information

3.12.1 Plain Filtering

3.12.2 Advanced Filtering

3.13 Regexp matching

3.13.1 Regular expression syntax

3.13.2 Regexp and plain string matching

3.14 Completion

3.14.1 Invoking completion

3.14.2 Selecting the completed input

3.14.2.1 In-place completion

3.14.2.2 Filtering in-place completion

3.14.3 Completion dialog

3.14.3.1 Filtering modal dialog completion

3.15 Output and Input to/from the standard streams

3.16 Examining a window

3.17 System preferences affecting the IDE tools

3.17.1 'Tabbing' between buttons

3.17.2 Web browser for viewing documentation

4 Getting Help

4.1 Online manuals in HTML format

4.1.1 Getting help on the current symbol

4.1.2 Getting help on the current tool

4.1.3 Searching the online manuals

4.1.4 Searching the example source files

4.1.5 Browsing manuals online

4.1.6 The Lisp Knowledgebase

4.1.7 LispWorks Patches

4.1.8 Configuring the browser used

4.2 Online help for editor commands

4.3 Reporting bugs

4.4 Registering a new license key

4.5 Browsing manuals online using Adobe Reader

5 Session Saving

5.1 What session saving does

5.2 The default session

5.3 What is saved and what is not saved

5.4 Saving sessions

5.4.1 Scheduling automatic session saving

5.4.2 The Save Session dialog and actual saving

5.4.3 Saving a session interactively

5.5 Redirecting images to a Saved Session image

5.6 Non-IDE interfaces and session saving

6 Manipulating Graphs

6.1 An overview of graphs

6.2 Searching graphs

6.3 Expanding and collapsing graphs

6.3.1 Expanding and collapsing by clicking

6.3.2 Expanding and collapsing by menu commands

6.4 Moving nodes in graphs

6.5 Displaying plans of graphs

6.6 Preferences for graphs

6.6.1 Altering the depth and breadth of graphs

6.6.2 Displaying different graph layouts

6.7 Using graphs in your programs

7 LispWorks menus and the toolbar

7.1 LispWorks menus

7.2 The LispWorks toolbar

7.3 Specifying the initial tools

8 The Class Browser

8.1 Simple use of the Class Browser

8.1.1 Examining slots

8.1.2 Examining inherited slots

8.1.3 Filtering slot information

8.1.4 Examining other classes

8.1.5 Sorting information

8.2 Examining slot information

8.2.1 Class box

8.2.2 Filter area

8.2.3 Slots list

8.2.4 Description list

8.2.5 Performing operations on the current class

8.3 Examining superclasses and subclasses

8.3.1 Class box

8.3.2 Superclasses list

8.3.3 Subclasses list

8.3.4 Description list

8.3.5 Performing operations on the selected classes or the current class

8.4 Examining classes graphically

8.4.1 Class box

8.4.2 Subclasses and superclasses graphs

8.4.3 Description list

8.4.4 Performing operations on the selected classes or the current class

8.4.5 An example

8.5 Examining generic functions and methods

8.5.1 Class box

8.5.2 Filter box

8.5.3 List of functions or methods

8.5.4 Description list

8.5.5 Performing operations on the current class

8.5.6 Operations specific to the current function or method

8.6 Examining initargs

8.6.1 Class box

8.6.2 Filter box

8.6.3 List of initargs

8.6.4 Description list

8.6.5 Performing operations on the current class

8.7 Examining class precedences

8.7.1 Class box

8.7.2 Filter box

8.7.3 List of precedences

8.7.4 Description list

8.7.5 Performing operations on the selected classes or the current class

9 The Object Clipboard

9.1 Placing objects on the Object Clipboard

9.1.1 The Listener

9.1.2 The Class Browser

9.1.3 The Inspector

9.1.4 The Function Call Browser

9.1.5 The Generic Function Browser

9.1.6 The Debugger

9.1.7 The Stepper

9.1.8 The System Browser

9.1.9 General clipping

9.2 Browsing clipped objects

9.2.1 The Inspector

9.2.2 The Class Browser

9.2.3 The Listener

9.2.4 General browsing

9.2.5 Pasting of clipped objects

9.3 Removing objects

9.4 Filtering

9.5 Using the Object Clipboard with a Listener

10 The Compilation Conditions Browser

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Examining conditions

10.3 Configuring the display

10.3.1 Display preferences

10.4 Access to other tools

11 The Debugger Tool

11.1 Description of the Debugger

11.1.1 Condition box

11.1.2 Backtrace area

11.1.2.1 Frames and Variables in a tree

11.1.2.2 Frames and Variables in two lists

11.1.3 Toolbar buttons

11.1.4 Bypassing the Notifier window

11.2 What the Debugger tool does

11.3 Simple use of the Debugger tool

11.4 The stack in the Debugger

11.5 An example debugging session

11.6 Performing operations on the error condition

11.7 Performing operations on stack frames

11.7.1 Source location, documentation, inspect and method combination for the current frame

11.7.2 Restarts and returning from the frame

11.7.3 Tracing the function in the frame

11.8 Performing operations on frame variables

11.9 Configuring the debugger tool

11.9.1 Configuring the call frames displayed

11.9.2 Displaying package information

11.9.3 Behavior on closing the Debugger

11.9.4 Frames and variables display

11.10 The Notifier window

11.11 Handling of Cocoa Event Loop hanging

11.12 Errors in CAPI display callbacks

12 The Tracer

12.1 Introduction

12.2 Tracing and Untracing functions

12.2.1 Tracing methods

12.3 Examining the output of tracing

12.3.1 The Output Data view

12.3.2 The Output Text view

12.4 Example

13 The Editor

13.1 Displaying and editing files

13.1.1 The toolbar

13.1.2 The editor window

13.1.3 The echo area

13.1.4 Using keyboard commands

13.2 Displaying output messages in the Editor

13.3 Displaying and swapping between buffers

13.3.1 Filter area

13.3.2 Buffers area

13.3.3 Editor tool solely as buffers list

13.4 Displaying Common Lisp definitions

13.4.1 Filter box

13.4.2 Definitions area

13.5 Changed definitions

13.5.1 Setting the reference point for changed definitions

13.6 Finding definitions

13.7 Setting Editor preferences

13.7.1 Controlling other aspects of the Editor

13.7.2 Controlling options specific to the Editor

13.7.2.1 Controlling toolbar display

13.7.3 Buffers list option

13.7.3.1 Sorting items in lists

13.7.3.2 Displaying package information

13.8 Basic Editor commands

13.8.1 Opening, saving and printing files

13.8.2 Moving around files

13.8.3 Inserting and deleting text

13.8.4 Using several buffers

13.9 Other essential commands

13.9.1 Aborting commands

13.9.2 Undoing commands

13.9.3 Repeating commands

13.10 Cutting, copying and pasting using the clipboard

13.11 Cutting, copying and pasting using the kill ring

13.11.1 Marking the region

13.11.2 Cutting or copying text

13.11.3 Pasting text

13.12 Searching and replacing text

13.12.1 Searching for text

13.12.2 Incremental searches

13.12.3 Replacing text

13.13 Using Lisp-specific commands

13.13.1 Lisp mode

13.13.2 Current buffers, definitions and expression

13.13.3 Evaluating code

13.13.4 Compiling code

13.13.4.1 Compiling in memory

13.13.4.2 Compiling to a file

13.13.5 Argument list information

13.13.6 Breakpoints

13.13.6.1 Setting breakpoints

13.13.6.2 Editing breakpoints

13.13.6.3 Removing breakpoints

13.13.6.4 Reloading code with breakpoints

13.13.7 Tracing symbols and functions

13.13.8 Packages

13.13.8.1 The primary package

13.13.8.2 The current package for Lisp operations

13.13.9 Indentation of forms

13.13.10 Other facilities

13.14 Help with editing

14 The Code Coverage Browser

14.1 Starting the Code Coverage Browser

14.2 Displaying a Code Coverage data

14.3 Code Coverage Files List Context Menu

14.4 Traverse

14.5 Using the internal data

14.6 Creating new Data

15 The Function Call Browser

15.1 Introduction

15.2 Examining functions using the graph views

15.2.1 Function area

15.2.2 Show functions control

15.2.3 Graph area

15.2.4 Echo area

15.2.5 The function description button

15.2.5.1 Function description area

15.2.5.2 Documentation area

15.3 Examining functions using the text view

15.3.1 Called By area

15.3.2 Calls Into area

15.4 Configuring the function call browser

15.4.1 Sorting entries

15.4.2 Displaying package information

15.5 Configuring graph displays

15.5.1 Graph layout settings

15.5.2 Graph expansion settings

15.5.3 Plan mode settings

15.6 Performing operations on functions

16 The Generic Function Browser

16.1 Examining information about methods

16.1.1 Function area

16.1.2 Filter area

16.1.3 Methods list

16.1.4 Description list

16.1.5 Performing operations on the current function or selected methods

16.2 Examining information about combined methods

16.2.1 Function box

16.2.2 Signatures button

16.2.3 Arguments types box

16.2.4 List of method combinations

16.2.5 Description list

16.2.6 Restricting displayed signatures by class

16.3 Configuring the Generic Function Browser

17 The Search Files tool

17.1 Introduction

17.2 Performing searches

17.2.1 Entering Search Specifications directly

17.2.1.1 Plain Directory searches

17.2.1.2 Root and Patterns searches

17.2.1.3 System Search

17.2.1.4 Known Definitions searches

17.2.1.5 Searching editor buffers

17.2.1.6 Grep searches

17.2.2 Using context-dependent searches

17.2.2.1 Context-dependent searches using Editor commands

17.2.2.2 Context-dependent searches using menu commands

17.2.2.3 Search History

17.3 Viewing the results

17.3.1 Displaying in an Editor

17.3.2 Linking to an Editor

17.3.3 Filtering the results

17.3.4 Hiding certain results

17.4 Modifying the matched lines

17.5 Configuring the Search Files tool

17.5.1 Search Parameters

17.5.2 Display

17.5.3 File Types

17.5.4 The External Grep Program

18 The Inspector

18.1 Inspecting the current object

18.2 Description of the Inspector tool

18.2.1 Adding a Listener to the Inspector

18.3 Filtering the display

18.3.1 Updating the display

18.4 Examining objects

18.5 Operating upon objects and items

18.5.1 Examination operations

18.5.1.1 Example

18.5.1.2 Recursive inspection

18.5.2 Examining attributes

18.5.3 Tracing slot access

18.5.4 Manipulation operations

18.5.4.1 Example

18.5.5 Copying in the Inspector

18.6 Configuring the Inspector

18.7 Customizing the Inspector

18.8 Creating new inspection formats

18.8.1 Example

19 The Symbol Browser

19.1 Introduction

19.2 Description of the Symbol Browser

19.2.1 Search Settings

19.2.1.1 Packages

19.2.1.2 Type

19.2.1.3 Accessibility

19.2.2 Filter area

19.2.3 Symbols list

19.2.4 Description area

19.2.5 Documentation area

19.3 Configuring the Symbol Browser

20 The Listener

20.1 The basic features of a Listener

20.2 Evaluating simple forms

20.3 Re-evaluating forms

20.4 The debugger prompt and debugger level

20.5 Interrupting evaluation

20.6 The History menu

20.7 The Expression menu

20.8 The Values menu

20.9 The Debug menu

20.10 Execute mode

20.10.1 History commands

20.10.2 Debugger commands

20.10.3 Miscellaneous Listener commands

20.11 Setting Listener preferences

20.12 Running Editor forms in the Listener

20.13 Switching to and from other tools

20.14 Help with editing in the Listener

21 The Output Browser

21.1 Interactive compilation messages

21.1.1 Compilation message styles

22 The Process Browser

22.1 The process list

22.2 Process control

22.3 Other ways of breaking processes

22.4 Updating the Process Browser

22.5 Process Browser Preferences

23 The Profiler

23.1 Introduction

23.2 Display of Profiler Data

23.2.1 Call Tree

23.2.2 Cumulative Results

23.3 A description of profiling

23.3.1 Description of call tree data

23.3.2 Description of cumulative data

23.4 Steps involved in profiling code

23.4.1 Choosing the functions to profile

23.4.1.1 Choosing individual functions

23.4.1.2 Choosing packages

23.4.2 Specifying the code to run while profiling

23.4.3 Performing the profile

23.5 Format of the cumulative results

23.6 Interpreting the cumulative results

23.7 Profiling pitfalls

23.7.1 Effects of random sampling

23.7.2 Recursive functions

23.7.3 Structure accessors

23.7.4 Consequences of restricted profiling

23.7.5 Effect of compiler optimizations

23.7.6 Effect of compiler transforms

23.8 Some examples

24 The Shell and Remote Shell Tools

24.1 Introduction

24.2 The Shell tool

24.3 Command history in the shell

24.4 Configuring the shell to run

24.5 The remote shell tool

25 The Stepper

25.1 Introduction

25.1.1 Stepper toolbar

25.1.2 Source area

25.1.3 Backtrace area

25.1.4 Listener area

25.2 Simple examples

25.2.1 Standalone use of the stepper

25.2.2 Invoking the Stepper via a breakpoint

25.3 The implementation of the Stepper

25.3.1 Requirements for stepping

25.3.2 Editing source code

25.3.3 Side-effects of stepping

25.3.4 Atomic and constant forms

25.4 Stepper controls

25.4.1 Shortcut keys for the Stepper

25.5 Stepper restarts

25.6 Breakpoints

25.6.1 Setting breakpoints

25.6.2 Conditional breakpoints

25.6.3 Printing breakpoints

25.6.4 Editing breakpoints

25.6.5 Removing breakpoints

25.7 Stepping macro forms

25.7.1 Interactive macro expansion

25.7.2 Macro expansion in the stepper

25.7.3 Collapsing macro expansions

25.7.4 Controlling macro expansion

25.8 Listener area

25.9 Configuring the Stepper

25.9.1 Operator preferences

25.9.2 Backtrace preferences

26 The System Browser

26.1 Introduction

26.2 A brief introduction to systems

26.2.1 Examples

26.3 The System Browser

26.4 A description of the System Browser

26.5 Examining the system tree

26.5.1 System area

26.5.2 Tree area

26.5.3 Description area

26.5.4 Performing operations on system members

26.6 Examining systems in the text view

26.6.1 System area

26.6.2 Parent system area

26.6.3 Subsystems area

26.6.4 Files area

26.6.5 File description area

26.7 Generating and executing plans in the preview view

26.7.1 System area

26.7.2 Actions area

26.7.3 Filter area

26.7.4 Plan area

26.7.5 File description area

26.7.6 Executing plans in the preview view

26.8 Examining output in the output view

26.8.1 System area

26.8.2 Output area

26.9 ASDF Integration

26.9.1 Interface to source code managers

26.10 Configuring the display

26.10.1 Sorting entries

26.10.2 Displaying package information

26.10.3 Display of the toolbar

26.11 Setting options in the system browser

27 The Window Browser

27.1 Introduction

27.1.1 Graph box

27.1.2 Window graph

27.1.3 Description list

27.2 Configuring the Window Browser

27.2.1 Sorting entries

27.2.2 Displaying package information

27.2.3 Displaying the toolbar

27.2.4 Displaying different types of window

27.2.5 Displaying short or long names

27.3 Performing operations on windows

27.3.1 Navigating the window hierarchy

27.3.2 Window control

28 The Application Builder

28.1 Introduction

28.1.1 What the Application Builder does

28.2 Preparing to build your application

28.2.1 The script

28.2.1.1 Using your existing delivery script

28.2.1.2 Creating a new delivery script

28.3 Building your application

28.4 Editing the script

28.5 Troubleshooting

28.5.1 Viewing errors

28.5.2 Clearing the output

28.6 Running the saved application

28.6.1 Passing arguments and redirecting output

28.6.2 Executing a different file

28.6.3 Killing application processes

28.7 Using the Application Builder to save a development image

28.8 Configuring the Application Builder

Index

 


LispWorks IDE User Guide (Macintosh version) - 12 Feb 2015

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