[racket] etags support for DrRacket

For us the right way to go could be to extend 

 'search in files' 
and/or 
 'check syntax' 
 



On Nov 18, 2010, at 1:49 PM, Mitchell Wand wrote:

> It took me about 45 minutes, but I found the following bit of trivia helpful:
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> To convince etags to look  for definitions in .rkt files do the following:
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> Create a file ~/.ctags , and add to it the following line:
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> --langmap=scheme:.rkt
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> This will cause ctags/etags to recognize .rkt files as scheme files, and apply etags' parsing rules to find definitions.
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> OTOH:
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> (1)  According to http://ctags.sourceforge.net/EXTENDING.html , you can add a new language to ctags/etags by writing something like
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>   --langdef=swine
>   --langmap=swine:.swn
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>   --regex-swine=/^def[ \t]*([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/\1/d,definition/
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> Has anybody done this for Racket ?  There are also fancier things you can do; see the EXTENDING page for details.
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> (2)  Is there some better tool I should be using?  I want to do things like change a name across a whole set of files.
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> --Mitch
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