[plt-scheme] Re: DrScheme top five new user feature list

What are your criteria for inclusion?  A beginner might not know  
historical ones like:

2. Navigate Among Words
...
(c:s) search
(c:r) reverse-search
...

I use (c:x c:x) to check syntax, but perhaps I am one of a few that  
needs to do so.

I wonder how hard it would be to make DrScheme keep statistics on the  
use of these features.

rac



On Aug 5, 2007, at 10:28 AM, Grant Rettke wrote:

> On 8/5/07, Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org> wrote:
>> Recently I read through all of the default DrScheme key command  
>> bindings.
>
> Now that I've sent that I see that I missed a couple I just learned
> about (thanks Robby and Kyle)
>
> Recently I read through all of the default DrScheme key command  
> bindings.
>
> There are some quite useful entries in here.
>
> The following is my top five list of features that every user new to
> DrScheme should learn about "pretty quickly" to ensure more
> pleasurable hacking.
>
> 1. Navigate among s-expressions
> 	- Move the cursor between s-expressions within a given s-expression
> 	- meta arrows
> 	- Add shift to make selections
>
> 2. Navigate among words
> 	- Move the cursor among words
> 	- control arrows
> 	- Add shift to make selections
>
> 3. Insert pairs of operators
> 	- "", (), [], {}, ||, or lambda template (lambda () )
> 	- meta shift (desired char), or (m:s:l) or (ESC;s:l) for lambda  
> template
> 	- Combine with selection to safely wrap s-expressions during  
> refactoring
> 	- For example, select an expression, insert a pair, that pair gets
> inserted around the selection you just made
>
> 4. Tabs
> 	- control = opens a new tab
> 	- control page up or page down moves between tabs
>
> 5. Editors
> 	- control m splits the editor
> 	- control r collapses the editor
> 	- control d toggles editor hiding
> 	- control e toggles REPL hiding
> 	- control f6 toggle-focus-between-definitions-and-interactions window
> 	- The difference between stop and kill is that kill is not catchable
> by an exception handler
> 	- Command repeat lets you repeat a given command
>  	- You can record and execute a macro
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