[racket] DrRacket feature request: colored contracts

Woah, you're good Robby!
Now that you mention it, it's true that I see this blue box more often.

Well, then, if at some point you feel like coloring contracts... ;)


On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu>wrote:

> Actually, the documentation blue boxes thing in the upper-right corner
> (is that also what you're referring to by the identifier information
> rectangle) does this. I did it as kind of an experiment to see how
> well that approach would work. It seems to be going okay so far, and
> it could be generalized to handle colors or other such information
> that is probably not invalidated by an edit, while we wait for latest
> online check syntax information to come back. Right now, when you edit
> the buffer, it only invalidates the blue boxes for the editor ranges
> that were actually edited. For example, if you have
>
> (define x (list 1 2 3))
>
> and you change the program to
>
> (define x (liPQRst 1 2 3))
>
> then the "define" blue box sticks around (until the check syntax
> results come back saying the entire buffer is bogus).
>
> Robby
>
> On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Laurent <laurent.orseau at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>
> >> I'm not sure if that's the best thing, but
> >> the reason I did it that was was to avoid colors flashing around, as
> >> the check syntax information comes and goes as you edit the buffer.
> >
> >
> > Ah yes, there might be this problem indeed.
> > Maybe it could be possible to keep a "partial" state of the syntax
> checker,
> > and only discard the parts that are being edited, until the document can
> be
> > checked entirely, possibly with a warning at the bottom right saying that
> > the syntax checker is not currently in sync.
> > That would help for the contract coloring as well as for the identifier
> > information rectangle, but I'm not sure this is easy to implement.
> >
> > Laurent
> >
> >>
> >> Robby
> >>
> >> On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Laurent <laurent.orseau at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > Starting my Xmas wish list:
> >> > In case some developer doesn't know what to do (sure...), I think it
> >> > would
> >> > be visually quite helpful if contracts could be syntax-colored, for
> >> > example
> >> > in lighter blue. That would help quickly distinguish between the
> actual
> >> > code
> >> > and the debugging code.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks :)
> >> > Laurent
> >> >
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