[racket] Electric-pair like setting for square brackets in DrRacket on Windows?

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 4 21:40:44 EST 2014

I just push a fix for one such bug: when you type control-[ in that
mode, then you (used to) get only one bracket. Is that what you're
found?

Robby


On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 11:47 AM, J Arcane <jarcane at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I started Lisping on Emacs and grew to rather appreciate the
> electric-pair-mode method for automatically inserting a closing parens and
> other symbols; I had mine set to auto close (), [], and "" at a minimum, and
> sometimes set others when I was working in other languages.
>
> DrRacket has a setting to do this for (), but at least on the Windows
> version it doesn't seem to support this for []; I've fiddled with settings
> and they seem to make no difference in behavior.
>
> Odd thing is, on FreeBSD I could swear auto-closing square brackets worked
> last I used it (though my BSD install is stuck on console mode for now so I
> can't check).
>
> Am I missing something, is this a bug, or just a feature not present in the
> Windows version?
>
> Thanks,
> John Berry
> http://jarcane.github.com
> http://try-racket.org
>
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