[racket-dev] Feature request:highlight variables

From: Harry Spier (vasishtha.spier at gmail.com)
Date: Sun Feb 3 13:54:03 EST 2013

Thanks Pierpaulo I see it now.
Cheers,
Harry

On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Pierpaolo Bernardi <olopierpa at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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