[racket] DrRacket GEdit-like "External tools"

Here is an alpha version of a plugin that does partly what I wanted:
http://planet.plt-scheme.org/display.ss?package=script-plugin.plt&owner=orseau
I'm pretty sure we could do much more.

Note that since it is a prototype version, some things may change in the
somewhat near future, potentially in a non-backward compatible way.

Comments et al. welcome, and feel free to fork.

Laurent

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 18:11, Robby Findler <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu>wrote:

> That would be a very cool thing. Asumu: if it still hasn't happened by
> next summer, maybe this one should go in the GSoC list?
>
> Robby
>
> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Laurent <laurent.orseau at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does anyone know about a DrRacket Plugin that would look like GEdit
> > "External Tools"? Could'nt find anything of the like on PLaneT.
> >
> > The idea is to have an embedded editor for small scripts that can, for
> > example, take the current text selection as input and replace the text
> > in-place by the output of the script.
> > Sample:
> >
> https://live.gnome.org/Gedit/Plugins/ExternalTools?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=external-tools-manager-with-gedit-3.png
> >
> > The input can either be nothing, the current document, the current
> > selection, the current line, or the current word (considering s-expr
> would
> > be an obvious extension).
> > The output can also be redirected to some other panel, created in a new
> > file, or inserted at the cursor.
> > An menu-item is added automatically for each script (without even
> needing to
> > restart GEdit), and a keyboard shortcut can be assigned to each one.
> > GEdit uses the linux shell and can therefore work with different
> languages,
> > but I don't think anyone would dare to complain if such a tool would be
> > "limited" to the Racket languages.
> >
> > That would certainly make DrRacket much more easily configurable! Up to
> now,
> > this has been the most convenient way I've seen to easily extend an IDE
> for
> > a large variety of simple actions.
> >
> > By the way, I think it would make sense to have a dedicated "DrRacket
> > Plugins" section on PLaneT.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Laurent
> >
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