If you want 3 tasks instead of 2 (everyone likes 3 over 2, no :-), I’d say generalize this > • hide the ‘check syntax’ button if background expansion is *enabled*
to ‘hide all buttons when '#lang * racket/*’ is chosen and add a preference that allows people to generalize the regexp to their desire. Rationale: This makes additional screenstate available to programs. Alternatively, this new space could be used for other messages > On Nov 26, 2017, at 8:19 AM, Stephen De Gabrielle <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Thanks Matthias. > > Your enthusiasm and guidance is appreciated - I do what I can. > > I'm prioritising; > a) adding some more recent pictures to DrR documentation (adding images from > racket 6.11) > a) starting on an address/context bar - > https://github.com/racket/drracket/issues/171 > <https://github.com/racket/drracket/issues/171> > > Also - thank you to Robby who has already provided much guidance and support. > > Stephen > > > > > On Fri, 24 Nov 2017 at 21:30, Matthias Felleisen <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> On Nov 24, 2017, at 9:35 AM, Stephen De Gabrielle <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> I’m thinking about spending some of my spare time on DrRacket and the GUI >> libraries and would appreciate your feedback about where you think I should >> put my efforts, both in the ideas below (that I have cribbed from other >> IDE’s) and any suggestions you have. >> > > Let me start with a big “thank you.” Many of these things are needed and > will greatly improve DrR’s usability. When I run my Sw Dev course at > Northeastern, I allow students to use whatever language/IDE they want. I > often see ideas in new IDEs that we have/thought of a long time ago and think > “cool perhaps they imitated us and Robby should feel immensely flattered.” > And then I see cool ideas in these new IDEs and I am jealous. I don’t want to > be jealous, I just want these features :-) > >> I don’t want to go down any paths that might be undesirable in general, but >> also specifically in the role as a IDE for teaching/learning. >> > > Totally understood. > >> I believe the concept of ‘projects’ (like in xcode) is undesirable in this >> context, but please correct me if I am wrong about this. >> >> > > > Correct. If you ever feel the need for a project, we need to improve the > language. > > I’ve read your list and I like all of the ideas. So w/o sounding like someone > who will steal all your time, can I have all of it :-) > > — Matthias > > > > > -- > Kind regards, > Stephen > -- > Ealing (London), UK -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/705350BB-AC08-4F57-A51A-9F610235ECEA%40ccs.neu.edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
