[racket] sexp highlighting

From: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (samth at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Sun Jun 19 10:16:41 EDT 2011

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Nikita Zuev <nikitazu at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 08:28:23 -0400
> Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Nikita Zuev <nikitazu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > If I remember correctly when racket was plt scheme of version 4, and drracket was drscheme, its gui was highlighting s-expressions when cursor was standing on a closing parenthesis, now it is highlighting only matching open-parenthesis, only on input and only for a short period of time. Is there a way to get old behavior back, it was very helpful?
>>
>> Currently, DrRacket has exactly what you describe as the "old
>> behavior" for me.  Can you give some more details of what your system
>> is like, and what isn't working?
>> --
>> sam th
>> samth at ccs.neu.edu
>
> I'm currently using debian wheezy and have racket installed from repositories. It is called 5.1.1+dfsg1-2, don't know what dfsg1-2 means. Same with racket 5.1.1 built from sources. And I've experienced same problem on 5.0, when I was using fedora.

Can you try installing Racket from the racket-lang.org download page,
and see if that works differently?
-- 
sam th
samth at ccs.neu.edu



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