[racket] online check syntax error display tweak

From: Vincent St-Amour (stamourv at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 9 11:56:54 EDT 2011

I like it.

However with the highlight on the right, I find it kind of hard to
correlate the highlight with the relevant code, which is likely to be
on the left side. Wouldn't it be easier if the highlight was in the
left margin?

Vincent


At Thu, 8 Sep 2011 22:48:47 -0500,
Robby Findler wrote:
> 
> I've changed how online check syntax reports errors. Instead of
> hilighting the source location in gold, it puts a little reddish thing
> in the right-hand margin where the error is. The goal is to make this
> less obtrusive in, say, lecture, but also to make it less painful for
> those among us who edit programs in such a way as to keep the parens
> always balanced.
> 
> Let me know if you think it is an improvement or not
> 
> Robby
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