[racket] Indenting with class

I'm doing the opposite. I agree that the docs should match the right
style, but DrRacket is generally what we consider to the be the right
style.

Robby

On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Nick Shelley <nickmshelley at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure I understand. Are you trying to change scribble to look more
> like DrRacket's indenting?
>
> The background to my original question was that I started going through the
> GUI docs at http://docs.racket-lang.org/gui/windowing-overview.html and
> noticed when I typed it into DrRacket it wouldn't indent the same, so I
> assumed that the docs had the correct style and I just didn't know how to
> set it up in DrRacket.
>
> I guess my new question is, what is the best way to write OO code that uses
> new and a bunch of bracketed arguments? For examples of what kind of code
> I'm referring to, see the windowing docs I linked to above.
>
> As far as scribble mirroring DrRacket, I think in general it would be good
> to have all the code in the docs represent the best style for that type of
> code and then make sure DrRacket's defaults make that easy. Is that what
> you're doing with this diff?
>
> Sorry if I completely misunderstood your response.
>
> On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Robby Findler <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu>
> wrote:
>>
>> I looked into this a little bit and with the diff below, it starts to
>> get close to make the docs indent the way DrRacket does, but it looks
>> like getting closer is going to be complicated because of the way the
>> layout is set up and, I guess, that the layout is set up that way
>> because that's the best compromise with the html/pdf backed that's
>> been found.
>>
>> So I'm not really sure if the right thing is to try to lay out the
>> table differently, or perhaps I'm missing something about the way the
>> current things are set up that there is another simple tweak to do.
>>
>> In any case, the diff below makes the racket/draw canvas% docs's
>> constructor line the first argument up under the "w" new "new",
>> instead of under the "c" in "canvas%". The current setup seems to have
>> the "new canvas%" all in a single cell in the canvas and judicious use
>> of (hspace 1) doesn't seem to help.
>>
>> Robby
>>
>> diff --git a/collects/scribble/private/manual-proc.rkt
>> b/collects/scribble/private/manual-proc.rkt
>> index 5499aab..6780390 100644
>> --- a/collects/scribble/private/manual-proc.rkt
>> +++ b/collects/scribble/private/manual-proc.rkt
>> @@ -363,7 +363,7 @@
>>                             (list flow-spacer)
>>                             (list flow-spacer flow-spacer
>>                                   flow-spacer flow-spacer))]
>> -                [one-ok? (tagged+arg-width . < . 60)])
>> +                [one-ok? (and (not (eq? mode 'new)) (tagged+arg-width
>> . < . 60))])
>>              (list
>>               (make-table
>>                "prototype"
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Nick Shelley <nickmshelley at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Punny, right? Anyway, I can't figure out how to get DrRacket to indent
>> > like this:
>> >
>> > (define msg (new message% [parent frame]
>> >                           [label "No events so far..."]))
>> >
>> > like it is in the docs. I've tried putting new in the begin-like,
>> > define-like, and lambda-like sections of the preferences and none of them do
>> > it. I'm sure there's a simple solution that's in an obvious place in the
>> > docs, but it's eluding me right now. (I at least looked in the most obvious
>> > place that I could think of, which is the DrRacket preferences section, but
>> > the entry on indenting wasn't very helpful for what I want to know: "This
>> > panel controls which keywords DrRacket recognizes for indenting, and how
>> > each keyword is treated.")
>> >
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