[racket-dev] slash-form + bug in PLaneT keybindings require?

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 11 14:32:26 EDT 2011

As to 3), yes.

Robby

On Monday, July 11, 2011, John Clements <clements at brinckerhoff.org> wrote:
> I tried to make some keybindings available using PLaneT today, and ran into two problems--I suspect that this mechanism is not frequently used.
>
> 1) I can't use the slash-form in this require. That is, I have to type
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> (planet "magic-paren.rkt" ("clements" "magic-paren.plt" 1 0))
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> instead of
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> (planet clements/magic-paren/magic-paren)
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> .
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> In fact, I'd be even happier just typing
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> clements/magic-paren/magic-paren
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>
> 2) After typing the above, DrRacket installed the one-file planet package (and GOLLY, it took a while, but that's a different issue), and finally got this error:
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> Error when installing the keybindings (planet "magic-paren.rkt" ("clements" "magic-paren.plt" 1 0)):
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> symbol->string: expects argument of type <symbol>; given #<resolved-module-path:"/Users/clements/Library/Racket/planet/300/5.1.2.2/cache/clements/magic-paren.plt/1/0/magic-paren.rkt">
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>
> 3) I suppose I'd be happiest of all  if I could simply have an electric-parenthesis option built in to DrRacket. Does this seem like an appropriate preference entry for the "factory" DrRacket?
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> John
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