[racket-dev] Revision to the Language Dialog

No, I just played with the language dialog itself. 


On Nov 6, 2012, at 9:27 PM, Robby Findler wrote:

> Just to check: did you click on #lang racket when you had #lang racket
> in the buffer already? I need to improve that case a little bit.
> 
> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> Ouch. It satisfies the "gui design laws" so it passes this test.
>> For an 'old timer' it doesn't truly work. Let's wait and see.
>> 
>> -- Matthias
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Nov 6, 2012, at 8:17 PM, Robby Findler wrote:
>> 
>>> Okay, I've push something to try to deal with this.
>>> 
>>> Robby
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Robby Findler
>>> <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>>>> OH! I now get the confusion. Clicking on the teaching languages is the
>>>> way one interacts with that part of the dialog but the #lang lines are
>>>> just text and users of this thing will be completely confused by
>>>> non-parallelism.
>>>> 
>>>> Duh!
>>>> 
>>>> Hm.
>>>> 
>>>> Robby
>>>> 
>>>> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> +1
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thank you for the experiment. I am coming to two conclusions:
>>>>> -- I think we're closer to getting it right
>>>>> -- I am beginning to think we dont' ever wish to abolish it.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Nov 6, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Asumu Takikawa wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 2012-11-06 14:03:50 -0600, Robby Findler wrote:
>>>>>>> The "docs" links are meant to all be clickable (and I can certainly
>>>>>>> underline them). What were you expecting, exactly?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I prefer not to make clicking on the "#lang .." part edit the
>>>>>>> definitions window; I think copy and paste is probably clearer to the
>>>>>>> user.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I didn't actually expect the '#lang ...' to change anything, but I could
>>>>>> imagine thinking that it did and being confused. Similarly, it might not
>>>>>> be obvious that the teaching languages are clickable without some visual
>>>>>> distinction.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Asumu
>>>>> 
>> 

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