[plt-scheme] Project management

Maybe it helps to know that, when you open a new file, it goes into
the frontmost drscheme window as a tab (when you have the open-in-tabs
preference set)?

Robby

On 7/1/07, Corey Sweeney <corey.sweeney at gmail.com> wrote:
> I seem toI have managed to exceed the 2 Gigs of memory in my new
> machine during development, so I'm interested in looking at more
> efficent ways of doing project management.
>
> Right now, I have a linux (bash) script launch 4 copies of drscheme,
> each copy with about 10 tabs.
>
> Is there a way to open a second window from the command prompt, and
> load files into tabs in the second window?  My idea is that by only
> loading drscheme once, I'm hoping it will save memory.
>
>
> Or, alternatively, is there a way of opening windows, and loading
> files into tabs from the interaction prompt?  Something like:
>
> > (define window1 (drscheme:new-window))
> > (drscheme:load-file-in-tab "file1.scm" window1)
> > (drscheme:load-file -in-tab "file2.ss" window1)
> > (define window2 (drscheme:new-window))
> > (drscheme:load-file-in-tab  "file3.ss" window2)
> > (drscheme:load-file-in-tab  "file4.scm" window2)
>
> Due to some conversations I've had in the past, I'm guessing that
> would have to be nested,  I.E. every time I wanted to edit a file,
> load drscheme, and have it open a file, which has (require
> "drscheme.ss") or something in it, and auto-run it.  (by the way, how
> do you "auto-run" a program in drscheme?), then type something like
> that at the interaction prompt, which would open the tabs in a nested
> copy of drscheme?  Which would give me 2 running copies of drscheme,
> which while non-ideal, would be better then 4.
>
> Or would the "load-file-in-tab" functions be protected behind a module
> barrier, and thefrore inaccessable?
>
> I'm not really sure about anything here, so this is kind of a general
> probe.  I'm just looking for a solution that I can interactively
> improve from the "interactions area" as i'm using it.
>
>
> Corey
>
>
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