Setting the listener's default package

Hello all,

I have a package that provides a default set of extensions/idioms that I make use of regularly to the point that I generally switch to this package immediately after opening LispWorks. Is there a way to set the listener package other than manually entering (in-package ...) ?

I understand that a saved image solves this in some respects, but I would like to have the option of doing this via regular initialization. Is this possible?

Thank you,
Joerthan

Re: Setting the listener's default package

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Re: Setting the listener's default package

Yes, I tried a few things. Below is the contents of test init file to reproduce. I assume this is because the init file is being loaded, in which case this behavior is expected.

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
(in-package "CL-USER")

(defpackage :test-user
(:add-use-defaults t))

;; Either of these lines work in the Listener, not in the file
(in-package "TEST-USER")
(setq *package* (find-package "TEST-USER"))
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

Thanks, Joerthan

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Paul Tarvydas <tarvydas@visualframeworksinc.com> wrote:

Have you tried putting the in-package command in the ~/.lispworks file?
pt

Re: Setting the listener's default package

Joerthan Panest wrote:
> Is there a way to set the listener package other than manually entering (in-package ...) ?
> 

While not particularly elegant, the attached seems to work for me.


Mike

Re: Setting the listener's default package

That is particularly nice. Thanks Nick, and everyone else.

Cheers,
Joerthan

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 4:09 AM, Nick Levine <ndl@ravenbrook.com> wrote:

The following works for all subsequent listeners as well:

(defadvice (capi::interactive-pane-top-loop set-frob-package :before)
(top-level istream)
(setf *package* (find-package "FROB")))

- n

One man's KW trash?

Hi KnowledgeWorkers,

"One man's trash is another man's treasure."

I'm hoping someone might have some old, disused, (possibly misused!) KnowledgeWorks and/or Common Prolog examples lying around. I've probably gleaned as much as I can from what ships with LW and seeing what others have accomplished would be insightful.

If so, please let me know how you'd prefer to arrange this.

Thankyou.
Brian Connoy