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Arguments: configuration
This configuration option determines the initial current package of
IDE Listeners. More specifically, initial-package returns a symbol
whose symbol-name is the name (or a nickname) of the package that will
initially be the value of *package* in any IDE Listener
processes that are subsequently created.
(setf initial-package) may be called
to establish the package to be used in the future (with a form like
(setf (initial-package (configuration *system*))
:mypackage), replacing :mypackage with a
keyword naming the package you want), or the value may be set
interactively in the list of all configuration options displayed by
the Tools | Inspect System Data |
Configuration Options command. The value must be a symbol (not a
package object); a keyword is recommended.
The default value is :cg-user, for the
common-graphics-user package. IDE Listeners are in this package by
default instead of the more traditional common-lisp-user package. The
cg-user package is similar to the cl-user package, but additionally
uses the common-graphics package so that CG code in that package does
not have to qualify exported CG symbols.
When the prefs.cl options file is loaded at IDE
startup time, the value of this option is restored before any IDE
Listener processes are created. Therefore, initial-package may be set in any
IDE session to establish the initial current package of all IDE
Listeners in future IDE sessions. If you would rather start in the
common-lisp-user package, for example, then set initial-package to
:common-lisp-user (or :cl-user).
If no package with the specified name is found when (setf initial-package) is called, a new "empty" package with that name is created at that time. At IDE startup time, the package could be more fully defined later in the startup.cl file or in the source code of a project that is being initially loaded. This allows the "Listener 1" process to start up in the desired package and then to load application code that fully defines the package.
The current configuration is the value of
(configuration *system*). (See configuration and *system*.)
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Documentation for Allegro CL version 6.2. This page was not revised from the 6.1 page.
Created 2002.2.26.
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