[racket-dev] "bookmarks" in drracket?

FWIW, if done well, I think saving them in the preferences file would
be quite useful. Perhaps it would be good to have some kind of
"restore last time's stack" or "clear out my current stack" (depending
on whether or not the default behavior for the saved stack is to
restore them or not). But there is nothing more annoying than coming
back from a crash and having to rebuild lots of interesting state
you'd gotten set up.

Robby

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Matthias Felleisen
<matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
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> I would think that browser-like buttons are enough, and match the stack philosophy.
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> I also think that stacks are fine. If working with bookmarks suggest we want something else, we should explore this as a second step.
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> Finally, I would hate to see these things saved in preference files.
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> On Feb 3, 2012, at 1:04 PM, Robby Findler wrote:
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>> 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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