[racket] DrRacket: suppress newline when forcing evaluation?

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Sat Jan 15 17:03:17 EST 2011

Thanks, this is now fixed in GIT and will be in our (upcoming) next release.

Robby

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:12 PM, Benjamin Rahn <benjamin.rahn at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've just started using DrRacket on OS X (10.5), and there's an odd behavior
> that I'm finding somewhat frustrating.
>
> http://docs.racket-lang.org/drracket/interactions-window.html says that in
> the interaction window "you can force DrRacket to evaluate the expression by
> typing Alt-Return or Command-Return (depending on your platform)."
>
> The mac equivalent (option-enter) does indeed force evaluation, but it also
> inserts a newline into the expression (at the current location) before
> evaluation.  This is at best annoying and at worst breaks the expression by
> introducing whitespace in the middle of a word/token/etc.
>
> Is there any way to suporess the inserted newline?
>
> Thanks so much!
>
> -Ben
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