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authorSean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>2021-03-02 18:57:29 -0700
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@@ -49,13 +49,17 @@ some of the unique properties of the activity of programming in Lisp.
For example, using Lisp's interactivity, it's easy to test a new property
you're working on without having to plumb it into your main deployments, which
-might be large and relatively slow to run. Hit C-c C-c on your ``DEFPROP``
-form in Emacs, switch to the repl, and then use ``DEPLOY-THESE`` to run just
-that property against localhost or a local container, until it does what it
-should. For this purpose you can use whatever connection type is most
-convenient -- perhaps you normally deploy using Consfigurator's support for
-starting up remote Lisp images, but you can swap in a simple, lighter-weight
-connection type for testing.
+might be large and relatively slow to run. Hit ``C-c C-c`` on your
+``DEFPROP`` form in Emacs, switch to the repl, and then use ``DEPLOY-THESE``
+to run just that property against localhost or a local container, until it
+does what it should.
+
+For this purpose you can use whatever connection type is most convenient --
+perhaps you normally deploy using Consfigurator's support for starting up
+remote Lisp images, but you can swap in a simple, lighter-weight connection
+type for testing. Another respect in which this is useful is that interactive
+debugging is not possible with connection types which start up remote Lisp
+images.
We also have a few nice macros defined, though nothing too clever yet.