Re: keeping the arglist

[cfry@MIT.EDU (Christopher Fry)]

> 
>     Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1992 20:00 PST
>     From: cfry@mit.edu (Christopher Fry)
> 
>     > a Fred command analogous c-Sh-A on the lispm
>     >should be easy to implement.
> 
>     Yes! I've been thinking the same thing. To make the user feel confident that the
>     machine is giving him the arglist to foo instead of bar, the minibuffer printout
>     should include the name of the fn too.It could just print a fn call of the fn
>     with the argnames in place of the args. Example:
>     (foo argname1 argname2 &optional argname3)
> 
> This is OK for FOO, but doesn't work as well for
> DEFINE-PRESENTATION-TO-COMMAND-TRANSLATOR (a legitimate symbol in
> the CLIM package), unless we all get much wider screens.
I sent off some ideas about this, but perhaps they didn't get to everybody on the
list. One was simply have an environment variable whose value is the maximum number
of chars of the fn name to display when you ask for the arglist.
You could set it to 0 or 4 or 10. Even if you can't get the full name,
you should be able to get enough of it in the context that your in
to make you feel secure that its refering to the right fn.