[plt-dev] Whither DrRacket Tools

Yes, I thought so. Where would be a place to start? I put my
repl-submit? in place with drracket:modes:add-mode, but that functions
is never called in the tree, so it must happen somewhere else and I'm
at a loss for where to start.

Jay

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> That'ms something that would have to be part of the (newish)
> read-language stuff. Ie, drracket would have to ask your language for
> a submit predicate and the use it in the repl, I guess. At least
> that's what would be the easiest change to make.
>
> Robby
>
> On Tuesday, April 27, 2010, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Danny reported a bug in my datalog package, so I've been updating it
>> to the recent versions, while doing it I thought I would try removing
>> the need for the Dr... tool. The new color-lexer is really nice for
>> getting syntax highlighting in the module language, so I was able to
>> do that. The only two things I can't do are getting a different
>> comment character (%) and getting a different REPL submit predicate.
>> The first is easy to add. The second is more worrisome, because in my
>> current implementation it is part of the "Mode" rather than the tool
>> itself.
>>
>> Any pointers for implementing the second as a language info key? I'm
>> pretty much totally lost when I try to follow the DrRacket source.
>> Rather than just email Robby, I thought I'd email the list to get more
>> press for the q/a.
>>
>> Jay
>>
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Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu>
Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
http://teammccarthy.org/jay

"The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93