At a python interpreter, one can simply type help("name")
to visit documentation for name.
- What is the equivalent in a common-lisp REPL (I am using SBCL)?
- Note that I am using SLIME in emacs 24.3
Thanks in advance.
Try these:
(documentation #'cons 'function)
(documentation 'most-positive-fixnum 'variable)
(describe #'cons)
Slime also has a bunch of shortcuts for looking at things: slime-describe-symbol
, slime-inspect
(and if you have the hyperspec sitting around, slime-documentation-lookup
) might all be useful.
c-h m
displays information about the current buffer modes and the available keyboard commands. – Rainer Joswig