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

From: J Arcane (jarcane at gmail.com)
Date: Thu Nov 6 00:06:14 EST 2014

I've checked the modes and the 'automatically adjust' setting and both are
set properly, but I still get the same result. If I type a [, I get a [ and
that's it, no matching ] gets inserted automatically, as I get when I type
a (.

On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 4:40 AM, Robby Findler <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu>
wrote:

> 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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