[racket] drracket log pane quirks

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 26 10:05:21 EST 2012

I've pushed some changes to fix those problems. Thanks for the feedback.

Robby


On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 6:19 AM, Neil Van Dyke <neil at neilvandyke.org> wrote:

> A few quirks with the DrRacket log pane (as seen with 5.3.1 and other
> recent releases, on GNU/Linux):
>
> * Log pane seems to automatically scroll vertically on new output.  This
> is a problem if user is working through information in the log pane and
> doesn't want to lose their position, or is visually referring to some text
> in the log pane while working in Definitions or Interactions pane.  (This
> happens very frequently, when Log pane is on the All or "debug" tabs, since
> GC messages keep losing one's place.)
>
> * Log pane seems to automatically scroll horizontally on long lines.
>  Starts of lines, as well of starts of neighboring lines in context, are
> generally more important.  Needs to either stay at the same horizontal
> scroll position, or reset to leftmost scroll position.
>
> * Text in the log pane is different size and typeface than that in the
> Definitions and Interactions panes.  In my setup, this means that I can't
> see as much info at once as I should be able to in the log pane.
>  Screenshot: http://postimage.org/image/**4worjbfqd/<http://postimage.org/image/4worjbfqd/>
>
> I've noticed these for a while, but I've been changing some of my tools to
> work better with DrRacket than Emacs, so I'm feeling the pain more often.
>
> Thanks,
> Neil V.
>
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