[racket] Using 5.3.6 preferences on 5.93

On 2/16/14, 12:57 PM, Robby Findler wrote:

Font, font-size and font and background color.

-- Doug

> Which preference do you notice it not using?
>
> Robby
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Doug Hockin <dough at ptera.net 
> <mailto:dough at ptera.net>> wrote:
>
>
>     I have Racket 5.3.6 installed and have been using it to learn
>     Racket. Yesterday I installed 5.93 as well, but my preference
>     settings from 5.3.6 didn’t show up in 5.93.
>
>     I did some digging in the documentation and found:
>
>     http://docs.racket-lang.org/drracket/drracket-files.html#%28part._.Preference_.Files%29
>
>     "3.4.3 Preference Files
>
>     On Mac OS X, preferences are stored in
>     "org.racket-lang.prefs.rktd" in the user’s preferences folder.”
>
>     I’m new enough to the Mac that I don’t know what “user’s
>     preferences folder” refers to, but was able to use ‘find’ in the
>     shell to locate:
>
>     /Users/doug/Library/Preferences/org.racket-lang.prefs.rktd
>
>     and my preferences from 5.3.6 are there.
>
>     The documentation referenced above also has a note saying:
>
>     “The expression (find-system-path 'pref-file) returns the
>     platform- and user-specific preference file path.”
>
>     But I get the error:
>
>     Welcome to DrRacket, version 5.93 [3m].
>     Language: Beginning Student [custom]; memory limit: 128 MB.
>     Teachpacks: (lib "guess.rkt" "teachpack" "htdp") and (lib
>     "draw.rkt" "teachpack" "htdp").
>     > (find-system-path 'pref-file)
>     find-system-path: this function is not defined
>     >
>
>     How do I get 5.93 to use my 5.3.6 preferences?
>
>     — Doug
>
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