[racket] sexp highlighting

From: Nikita Zuev (nikitazu at gmail.com)
Date: Sun Jun 19 10:33:31 EDT 2011

On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 10:16:41 -0400
Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:

> 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

There is no deb package on racket-lang.org, but I tried windows version on other laptop and it worked fine. Can't figure out if it linux problem or my hardware.
-- 
Nikita Zuev <nikitazu at gmail.com>


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