>>12 the unfortunate aspect of "common" in common lisp is that a lot of existing functionality was left behind, because each vendor already had some kind of elaborate, incompatible in details but similar in spirit solution to various IDE problems. genera's repl for example allowed you to enter human readable commands in addition to lisp code. one of such commands is Show Documentation, which would pull formatted docs for pretty much anything in the system, and dump them straight in the repl. i think texinfo's original intent was to support something like that on an emacs machine, and i believe there's already enough tooling to make emacs give you texinfo documentation for a symbol at point.