[racket] what kind of Racket editor operations would you like to see?

Hi,

I would like to propose two features.
I apologize if they are already implemented.

When you are typing on the last line of a file the window keeps scrolling
up and down as you insert or erase text. If there was some blank space
after the last line the scrolling would not occur.

The second feature is the ability to expand/collapse function 
definitions, i.e., hide
the body of a function and just see the name and parameters.

Regards,
José

On 07/15/2011 06:35 AM, Neil Van Dyke wrote:
> What kind of Racket editor operations would you like to see?
>
> With the forthcoming Emacs mode for Racket, called Meow, I intend to 
> provide a conventional typing interface and also some sexp-oriented 
> operations that people can adopt incrementally if they want.  
> ("meta-uparrow", to move up a sexp level, is one example of a sexp 
> operation people can adopt at any time, independent of other 
> operations.)  I'd be interested in ideas how to better accommodate 
> people becoming power-users in small steps like this, rather than a 
> modal switch from dumb-editor keys to power-user keys.
>
> I'm also interested in ideas for language-specific operations, such as 
> Quack's command to toggle a form between "(define (X ...) ...)" and 
> "(define X (lambda (...) ...))".  Different people will want different 
> of these operations, and I probably can't predict most of them.
>
> Meow has more precise parsing of the buffer than Emacs modes normally 
> do, and so doing some things smarter should be easier: 
> http://www.neilvandyke.org/weblog/2011/06/#2011-06-20
>
> I'm not going to be implementing this immediately, nor discussing it 
> in detail, but it would be nice to have a list of ideas ready for when 
> I do have another free weekend to work on Meow.
>

-- 
José António Branquinho de Oliveira Lopes
58612 - MEIC-A
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (UTL)
jose.lopes at ist.utl.pt