[racket-dev] Feature request:highlight variables

From: Pierpaolo Bernardi (olopierpa at gmail.com)
Date: Sun Feb 3 13:30:45 EST 2013

I meant 'Tack/Untack arrows'.

Cheers


2013/2/3, Harry Spier <vasishtha.spier at gmail.com>:
> Thanks Pierpaolo,
> I don't see a command to highlight the variable, though I do see jump to
> next bound occurance and the very useful "change variable name"
> Harry
>
> On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 10:46 PM, Pierpaolo Bernardi
> <olopierpa at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> You can already do this by right-clicking an identifier and selecting
>> the appropriate command (whose name at the moment I can't remember).
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>
>> 2013/2/3, Harry Spier <vasishtha.spier at gmail.com>:
>> > I just downloaded the latest version of Komodo Edit (I needed to edit
>> some
>> > PHP code) and it has an interesting feature that might be useful in
>> > DrRacket.  In DrRacket if you hover the mouse pointer over a variable
>> > you
>> > get arrows from the binding occurance of a variable to its bound
>> occurances
>> > which is very useful but if you move the cursor off the variable then
>> > the
>> > arrows disappear.  In the latest version of Komodo if you click on a
>> > variable then all occurances of that variable are highlighted.
>> >
>> > It might be a useful enhancement in DrRacket, that if you clicked on
>> > the
>> > binding occurance of a variable then it and all its bound occurances
>> would
>> > be hightlighted until you again clicked them off or clicked on a the
>> > binding occurance of a new variable. Or alternatively and probably
>> > better
>> > if clicking made the arrows stay until you clicked  them off.
>> >
>> > Harry Spier
>> >
>>
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>

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