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

Hi,

A wish list, well I'd like "extract function" refactoring and more advanced
renaming than search & replace. Also would be nice to be able to have
visibility to all defined modules, requires, provides, functions, classes,
structs etc. in a whole project and quick navigation within it.

-Markku

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Neil Van Dyke <neil at neilvandyke.org> 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<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.
>
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