AW: [plt-scheme] word completion for module based languages

Just to clarify, I don't ask for word completion of definitions in the
editing buffer, but for a language or a language extension which is loaded
by the language menu of DrScheme. My language supports an interface for
another software which uses a scheme dialect and has a lot of extensions for
programming that software. These numerous extensions have quiet long names,
which are difficult to remember exactly. So I want to provide the word
completion for them.
Robert

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[mailto:plt-scheme-bounces at list.cs.brown.edu] Im Auftrag von Robby Findler
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 21. Mai 2008 03:15
An: Eli Barzilay
Cc: Robert Matovinovic; plt-scheme at list.cs.brown.edu
Betreff: Re: [plt-scheme] word completion for module based languages


On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> On May 20, Robert Matovinovic wrote:
>> I currently use DrScheme, version 3.99.0.25-svn17may2008 on Windows 
>> XP to add documentation for a module based language which I 
>> implemented as a tool.  I started with a simple example using my own 
>> modules. The F1 shortcut to get the relevant docs for an item from 
>> within the DrScheme window works fine.  But is there a possibility to 
>> get only the help documents for the current language?
>
> It might be possible to do, I'm not sure about the kind of information 
> that DrScheme has when it starts a help search.  (FWIW, the `help' 
> form (in mzscheme) finds the right place for any binding.)
>
> (Skipping other issues that I cannot provide a helpful reply...)

DrScheme used to be able to do that and I believe it will be able to do that
again in the future. I believe Eli and I have discussed this, so I'm a
little surprised by his reply, but one way or the other, we should have that
capability back before v4.0.

As far as word completion goes, it currently does not consider the buffer
where you're editing. Others have asked for that too, so I hope to get to it
at some point.

Robby
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