[racket] [DrRacket] Syntax-coloring for the Interactions Window

I believe these are both shortcomings in DrRacket's REPL
implementation, I'm sorry to say.

Robby

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Timothy Nelson <tn at cs.wpi.edu> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have a two-part question about #languages and the interactions window.
>
> (1) I have a language equipped with a syntax coloring lexer just
> like in section 17.3.5 of the Racket docs. That works great for the
> definitions window. However, I've changed the
> current-read-interactions parameter so that the interactions window
> uses my language's reader as well. Now both windows read the same
> language, but they disagree on syntax coloring.
>
> The docs don't seem to cover this. Is there a way to apply my
> language's coloring lexer to *interactions* as well as definitions?
>
>
> (2) Even though I've changed current-read-interactions, the REPL is
> still treating some characters differently, e.g. if I enter:
>> ; <enter>
> or some spaces and then <enter>,
>
> my reader isn't called until I input something else on the next
> line. This makes me think there is another parameter that I'm missing.
>
> The oddness is happening after the prompt prints, so I tried changing
> the current-prompt-read parameter at the same time I change
> current-read-interactions, but the change seems to be ignored. It
> _does_ get used if I explicitly call read-eval-print-loop, but I can't
> figure out how to change it for the "base" interactions-window
> REPL. How can I change the prompt?
>
>
> Thanks very much for your time,
> - Tim
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