[racket] newbie drracket usage questions

Since no one mentioned it yet: if you want a shell-script based way to
tell the docs what to search for, you can use 'raco docs lambda' to
search for 'lambda'.

Robby

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 7:38 AM, Matthias Felleisen
<matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>
> On Jul 31, 2012, at 1:52 AM, D Herring wrote:
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>> Thanks for the quick response.  Unfortunately, I had found the web browser thingy (and had to enable javascript for it to work).  :)
>>
>> I am looking for functions that search for racket functions and return racket data structures that describe them.  The key pieces of information is the name (so it can be used) and the source location (so the implementation can be learned and possibly modified).
>
>
> As someone mentioned, DrRacket provides a GUI-version of this functionality with 'check syntax'. In #lang programs, 'check syntax' is always on and the information is always available.
>
> If you want a programmatic way to access this information, you'd have to hook into 'check syntax' before it colors the editor.
>
> -- Matthias
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