[racket-dev] "bookmarks" in drracket?

If it an unordered list of lines that were bookmarked, then I'd use
highlight-range to turn the background of those lines some color.

If it is a stack, that's harder, as you'd want to include some
graphical manifestation of the ordering. (But I think the lack of
order is better.)

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Stephen Chang <stchang at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>> - it would be good if there was some graphical representation of the
>> current bookmarks state.
>
> Any ideas on what the graphical representation should look like?
> Should it be a popup window? Or a side bar?
>
>
>>
>> - did you consider just having an (unordered) list of bookmarks? Then,
>> adding a book mark would be a keystroke that'd be separate from
>> jumping around, so you'd have to set them yourself, but you could
>> iterate around in the set bookmarks, instead of having to keep track
>> of which things are on top of the stack.
>>
>> I think the first one probably has to be fixed before we a release
>> could contain this feature. (The second one seems important, but not
>> as much as the first.)
>>
>> Robby
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 1:06 AM, Stephen Chang <stchang at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>>> When using Dr Racket, I use the right-click "Jump to definition of" a
>>> lot but I frequently find that I also want an easy way to get back to
>>> the code I was previously looking at. Does anyone else think this
>>> would be a useful feature to have? I've implemented something that
>>> adds this functionality.
>>>
>>> If anyone wants to try it out, I've included both modified source
>>> files (from drracket/private) and a patch.
>>>
>>> With the code I added, a "bookmark" automatically gets saved when
>>> jumping to a definition from the right-click menu and when choosing a
>>> definition from the "(define ...)" menu. Multiple bookmarks accumulate
>>> on a stack. You can also add your own bookmarks with the right click
>>> menu.
>>>
>>> To go back to the most recent bookmark, either use the right-click
>>> menu, or press C-x r (is this an appropriate key binding? I chose it
>>> because emacs similarly uses C-x r to do bookmark-related stuff).
>>>
>>> Since I'm not very familiar with drracket code, I'm not sure I put
>>> stuff in the right place. Would anyone mind reviewing my code? It's
>>> only a few lines.
>>>
>>> Also, would something like this be better as a plugin in the future?
>>>
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