[racket-dev] slash-form + bug in PLaneT keybindings require?

From: John Clements (clements at brinckerhoff.org)
Date: Mon Jul 11 14:52:49 EDT 2011

On Jul 11, 2011, at 11:32 AM, Robby Findler wrote:

> As to 3), yes.

Where would I put it? It looks like this could be done as a tool, but it seems silly to have a new collection just for this.

John


> 
> Robby
> 
> On Monday, July 11, 2011, John Clements <clements at brinckerhoff.org> wrote:
>> I tried to make some keybindings available using PLaneT today, and ran into two problems--I suspect that this mechanism is not frequently used.
>> 
>> 1) I can't use the slash-form in this require. That is, I have to type
>> 
>> (planet "magic-paren.rkt" ("clements" "magic-paren.plt" 1 0))
>> 
>> instead of
>> 
>> (planet clements/magic-paren/magic-paren)
>> 
>> .
>> 
>> In fact, I'd be even happier just typing
>> 
>> clements/magic-paren/magic-paren
>> 
>> 
>> 2) After typing the above, DrRacket installed the one-file planet package (and GOLLY, it took a while, but that's a different issue), and finally got this error:
>> 
>> Error when installing the keybindings (planet "magic-paren.rkt" ("clements" "magic-paren.plt" 1 0)):
>> 
>> symbol->string: expects argument of type <symbol>; given #<resolved-module-path:"/Users/clements/Library/Racket/planet/300/5.1.2.2/cache/clements/magic-paren.plt/1/0/magic-paren.rkt">
>> 
>> 
>> 3) I suppose I'd be happiest of all  if I could simply have an electric-parenthesis option built in to DrRacket. Does this seem like an appropriate preference entry for the "factory" DrRacket?
>> 
>> John
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 

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