[racket-dev] "bookmarks" in drracket?

I would think that browser-like buttons are enough, and match the stack philosophy. 

I also think that stacks are fine. If working with bookmarks suggest we want something else, we should explore this as a second step. 

Finally, I would hate to see these things saved in preference files. 




On Feb 3, 2012, at 1:04 PM, Robby Findler wrote:

> 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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