Additional flavour to your Emacs Lisp programming.

el-spice is a minor mode that provides additional configuration to make programming in Emacs Lisp more enjoyable.

• turns on eldoc

• adds functions to provide contextual help. Just type C-c C-? (Richard Riley)

• adds helper functions for debugging and reading emacs-lisp code (Helmut Eller)

  Key Binding	Functionality
  C-c C-d	Disassemble elisp
  C-c C-m	Macroexpand elisp
  C-c M-m	Macroexpand all
  C-c C-c	Compile defun
  C-c C-k	Eval buffer
  C-c l	Load file
  C-c C-p	Pretty-print Eval last sexp
  M-.	Find Definition
  M-,	Pop tag mark (Jump back)
  C-c C-l	List the callers of this function
  C-c <	Show function callers and callee summary for a package
  C-c C-?	Show contextual help
  C-c C-z	easy-key-binding for *ielm*

How to Install

Package managers

el-spice is available for install from the package managers Melpa and El-Get.

Manual Install

Clone this repository and add the following code to your init file:

(add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/el-spice/")

Configuration

Toggle el-spice activation with M-x el-spice-mode inside an elisp file. To activate el-spice for all emacs lisp programming (recommended), add the following lines to your .emacs file.

(add-hook 'emacs-lisp-mode-hook 'el-spice-mode)
(add-hook 'lisp-interaction-mode-hook 'el-spice-mode)