5 Advanced Features

5.3 Programming the editor

The editor functions described in this section can be combined and provided with arguments to create new commands. Existing editor commands can also be used in the creation of new commands (seeeditor:defcommand). All the existing commands are in theeditor package, and new commands should also be created in that package.

Note that all the code found in this chapter is included in the directoryexamples/editor in the directory defined by the variable*lispworks-directory*.

The following sections describe editor functions that are not interactive editor commands.