[racket] online check syntax error display tweak

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 9 12:20:36 EDT 2011

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Vincent St-Amour <stamourv at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> At Fri, 9 Sep 2011 10:58:23 -0500,
> Robby Findler wrote:
>> I thought about that, but I didn't want it to overlap the text and I
>> didn't want it to slide everything over to make space.
>
> What about horizontal lines before and after the relevant line,
> running across the whole editor. Finding the relevant code becomes a
> matter of following the lines. Grant Rettke's IntelliJ screenshot does
> something similar, and I think it helps.
>
>> What if there was a keybinding that jumped you to the right place?
>
> That would be great too. Emacs uses C-x ` for that.

How about a keystroke to jump to the place plus it colors things in
when you mouse over the right thingy in the right margin? If that
doesn't sound horrible, then I'll push something to try it out.

(I find those lines in the screenshot to be pretty ugly.)

Robby


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