[sedachv]

> But I'm curious if common lisp has some way of completing a "round trip edit" such that an edit/correction made on a server process, in situ, are able to be easily propagated back to your master source?

In SLIME you just connect to the Lisp process, open up your versioned-controlled file, edit it, hit C-c C-c for slime-compile-defun or C-c C-k for slime-compile-and-load-file. Isn't that how CIDER works also?