[racket] DrRacket needs work

From: Eric Tanter (etanter at dcc.uchile.cl)
Date: Mon Nov 14 08:49:49 EST 2011

Here is what I did:

- activate the automatic parentheses option

 then:

type `('
--> ()

type `let ('
--> (let ())

type `['
--> (let ([))

Here I would have expected
--> (let ([]))

?

-- Éric


On Nov 14, 2011, at 10:10 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:

> They have successfully inserted thousands of square brackets for me.
> :)  What are you doing that doesn't work?
> 
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 6:06 AM, Eric Tanter <etanter at dcc.uchile.cl> wrote:
>> Nice!
>> 
>> but automatic parentheses does not seem to work with square brackets.
>> 
>> -- Éric
>> 
>> 
>> On Nov 13, 2011, at 10:42 AM, Robby Findler wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks for the suggestions. One minor observation below.
>>> 
>>> On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 4:50 AM, Tomi Neste <tomi.neste at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> - Paredit like editing functions, I can't personally use an editor
>>>> without these anymore. Again, this is something that could be hacked
>>>> up easily in Emacs but with DrRacket I have no idea where to start.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I think you want to open the preferences dialog, go to the Editing
>>> pane, General subpane, and click "Enable automatic parentheses".
>>> 
>>> Robby
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