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

On Jul 15, 2011, at 2:36 PM, Richard Lawrence wrote:

> Hi Neil,
> 
> I am an Emacs user, but have so far stuck with DrRacket as I learn
> Racket; apologies if my suggestions are features that are already
> available in Quack/Meow.
> 
> 1. An operation that I always find myself wanting is something like
> ``wrap next sexp'' that would put parentheses around the next sexp and
> position point inside the new open-parenthesis, like so (point marked
> with `.'):
> 
> Before:
> . (some sexp goes in here)
> 
> After M-x wrap-next-sexp (or whatever key):
> (. (some sexp goes in here))
> 
> This would be extra useful with a prefix argument to wrap the next n
> sexps, like:
> 
> Before:
> . (sexp one) 'two 3
> 
> After C-u 3 M-x wrap-next-sexp:
> 
> (. (sexp one) 'two 3)

DrRacket provides this, more or less. Rather than using the C-u 4 paradigm, though, it uses the "wrap-highlighted-text" paradigm.  So, in order to wrap the next three s-expressions with parens, I'd type shift-option-right right right, then type meta-(. On my keyboard, I have automatically paired parentheses enabled, so this last keystroke is just '('.  

(Insert obligatory RSI comments regarding shift-option here).

John Clements

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