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

From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Sat Jul 16 11:21:42 EDT 2011

I think this is the notion of a *project*, which we don't support linguistically. I have wanted this myself often. 


On Jul 16, 2011, at 11:20 AM, Robby Findler wrote:

> You want to have a renaming operator that connects provides and
> requires? Since you can't find all the requiring files, perhaps you
> want to circle a group of files in the module browser or something to
> do the renaming? (Or do you have something else in mind?)
> 
> Robby
> 
> On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>> I think the big difference, as someone who currently uses Check Syntax a
>> lot, is that Peter is asking for refactoring that reaches to other files.
>> Perhaps the right way to integrate this is via the module browser.
>> 
>> On Jul 16, 2011 10:06 AM, "Robby Findler" <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I realize that Check Syntax requires some setup time, but speaking
>>> purely in terms of functionality, is that getting at what you want?
>>> 
>>> Robby
>>> 
>>> 2011/7/16 Ivanyi Peter <pivanyi at freemail.hu>:
>>>>  Markku Rontu <markku.rontu at iki.fi>, ezt írta:
>>>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>>> I also would like to vote for these.
>>>> - E.g. Replacing a function name with any other name at
>>>>  every place where it can be "meaningfully" determined that
>>>>  it is the same function name.
>>>> - Project view. Yes, please.
>>>> 
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> 
>>>> Peter Ivanyi
>>>> 
>>>> 
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