[plt-scheme] word completion for module based languages

From: Robby Findler (robby at cs.uchicago.edu)
Date: Tue May 20 21:15:26 EDT 2008

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> On May 20, Robert Matovinovic wrote:
>> I currently use DrScheme, version 3.99.0.25-svn17may2008 on Windows
>> XP to add documentation for a module based language which I
>> implemented as a tool.  I started with a simple example using my own
>> modules. The F1 shortcut to get the relevant docs for an item from
>> within the DrScheme window works fine.  But is there a possibility
>> to get only the help documents for the current language?
>
> It might be possible to do, I'm not sure about the kind of information
> that DrScheme has when it starts a help search.  (FWIW, the `help'
> form (in mzscheme) finds the right place for any binding.)
>
> (Skipping other issues that I cannot provide a helpful reply...)

DrScheme used to be able to do that and I believe it will be able to
do that again in the future. I believe Eli and I have discussed this,
so I'm a little surprised by his reply, but one way or the other, we
should have that capability back before v4.0.

As far as word completion goes, it currently does not consider the
buffer where you're editing. Others have asked for that too, so I hope
to get to it at some point.

Robby


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