[racket] editing racket code effectively

From: Grant Rettke (grettke at acm.org)
Date: Tue Nov 15 21:11:58 EST 2011

Hi David,

I found all of the following helpful.

http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/article/59/drsync-automatically-synchronize-file-changes-in-drscheme-v370-and-above

http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/49/using-schemes-eval-in-sandbox

http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/article/139/working-with-drscheme-372

http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/article/126/tex-macros-in-drscheme-399023-and-newer

http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/73/mr-ed-designer-generating-user-interfaces-with-plt-scheme

http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/235/interactive-debugging-utility-for-plt-scheme

http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/328/s-expression-comments-in-plt

http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/273/peter-ivanyis-dialog-library

http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/270/logging-support-in-plt

http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/263/matchss-examples

http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/775/packed-binary-routines-for-plt-scheme

http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/1601/profiling-in-plt-scheme

http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/2965/using-units-in-plt-scheme

http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/2648/what-file-is-a-name-defined-in

http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/3703/htmlprag-ported-to-plt-4-x

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 7:33 PM, David Vanderson
<david.vanderson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Question for those who work in Racket on a day-to-day basis:
>
> How can I edit Racket code more effectively?  To be more concrete, two
> speedbumps I'm hitting are:
>
> - how to add temporary debugging statements
> - how to temporarily comment out some code
>
> I always seem to be fighting to make sure the parens are balanced, both in
> DrRacket and Vim.  I'm comfortable editing line-based languages (Java,
> Python, Ruby, etc.).  Should I structure my code to be more line-oriented
> (using more internal defines), or try to use sexp-based editing?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
>
>
>
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