[racket-dev] Module Browser not a plugin/tool

Hi,

I just tried making a instance of insert-large-letters as a tool. I just
copied the code and added the tools stuff.

Seemed to work OK, but
- I turned it into normal racket as I didn't have time to learn typed
racket.
- I'm not confident enough with the core of DrRacket to remove the
'insert-large-letters' code without messing something else up.

I'm doing this as a learning exercise for the tools, but I may try
get-defns[1] and module browser[2] at some point.

[1] personally not a big fan of drop down menus - I like the tree thingy
you see in other IDEs
[2] to make Dr start quicker on slow machines.

Cheers,

Stephen


--
Stephen De Gabrielle <http://www.degabrielle.name/stephen>



On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Robby Findler <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu
> wrote:

> I'm not sure the module browser was before the plugin api, but probably it
> wasn't. I think all three of those could be tools, but it is an accident of
> history (and of who implemented them...) that they aren't. Probably they
> should be. We might even save some startup time by disabling the module
> browser.
>
> Robby
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Stephen De Gabrielle <
> stephen.degabrielle at acm.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> looking through the source I've noticed the module browser is not a tool,
>> I'm guessing this is because it preceded the introduction of the plugins
>> mechanism?
>>
>> Check Syntax is a tool, but insert-large-letters.rkt and get-defn's  are
>> not?
>>
>> is there a defined criteria? or is the arrangement historic/
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>>
>> Stephen
>>
>>
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