[racket] A question about code-style (and memory usage)

Ah, I see. That's a lot more work to do in DrRacket, I think, since we
just defer to the OS to do that kind of stuff. (Makes me wonder if
there already is some extension thing I can get for macosx that
essentially does what you've done, but at the os level.)

Robby

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> Three minutes ago, Robby Findler wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
>> > ([*] I started with something close to what DrRacket does, then
>> > went with something that I find even more convenient that hooks to
>> > the Emacs input method thing but lets me use a huge set of names.)
>>
>> Can you share the improvements/differences? Maybe DrRacket can get
>> better on this score.
>
> Well, one thing that I disliked in the presence of many names (I have
> around 1100 of them now) is the fact that I'll type \something, hit
> M-\ and see that there's nothing, and then I need to start editing the
> "something" or whatever.  Worse, I get no help from the environment
> telling me about which shorthands are known -- and this argument
> finally made me look at Emacs input methods which are now mature
> enough to deal with such problems.
>
> So my solution is to bind one key (I used M-enter, since I actually
> use M-\ for its default binding) to switch to a one-time input method
> that has all of those names.  For example, to get a `λ', I type
> `M-enter \' or `M-enter lambda' or `M-enter lgr' ("l greek").
>
> *And* I'm now getting the Emacs echo area thing (the line at the
> bottom) to tell me about possible ways to continue the name I'm
> entering, which is very useful for some of the more obscure names that
> I barely remember.
>
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