Hi,<br><br>Does anyone know about a DrRacket Plugin that would look like GEdit "External Tools"? Could'nt find anything of the like on PLaneT.<br><br>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.<br>
Sample:
<a href="https://live.gnome.org/Gedit/Plugins/ExternalTools?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=external-tools-manager-with-gedit-3.png">https://live.gnome.org/Gedit/Plugins/ExternalTools?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=external-tools-manager-with-gedit-3.png</a><br>
<br>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). <br>The output can also be redirected to some other panel, created in a new file, or inserted at the cursor.<br>
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.<br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br><br>By the way, I think it would make sense to have a dedicated "DrRacket Plugins" section on PLaneT.<br>
<br>Thanks,<br>Laurent<br>