<div dir="ltr">For the case of DrRacket itself, a good technique is to take a literal string from the GUI and look for it in the string-constants collection and then grep for the symbolic name you see there.<div> </div> <div>Robby</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 1:40 AM, Lorenz Köhl <<a href="mailto:rainbowtwigs@gmail.com" target="_blank">rainbowtwigs@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I wanted to read/hack on the code that implements the contour window in DrRacket. But I couldn't find it! Don't tell me where it is though! I'm more interested in the search process a more experienced racketeer/hacker would go through to solve this problem. What I did: - Search the docs: Two results describing the menu entry for hiding showing the contour. I didn't see how to get to the code from here - use 'find' in the shell with search string 'contour': just source related to plot - Grepping the code: grep -RiIl --exclude '*plot*' contour . from the top racket/ directory ./.git/HEAD ./.git/logs/HEAD ./pkgs/drracket-pkgs/drracket/drracket/HISTORY.txt ./pkgs/drracket-pkgs/drracket/scribblings/drracket/menus.scrbl ./pkgs/drracket-pkgs/drracket/scribblings/tools/frame.scrbl ./pkgs/drracket-pkgs/drracket/scribblings/tools/unit.scrbl ./pkgs/images/scribblings/flomap.scrbl ./pkgs/math/scribblings/math-flonum.scrbl ./pkgs/math/scribblings/math-special-functions.scrbl ./pkgs/racket-pkgs/racket-test/tests/racket/benchmarks/common/psyntax-input.txt ./pkgs/racklog/racklog.scrbl ./pkgs/sgl/gl.rkt ./pkgs/sgl/scribblings/gl.scrbl ./pkgs/string-constants-lib/string-constants/private/english-string-constants.rkt ./pkgs/string-constants-lib/string-constants/private/french-string-constants.rkt ./pkgs/string-constants-lib/string-constants/private/portuguese-string-constants.rkt ./racket/doc/drracket/doc-index.html ./racket/doc/drracket/Menus.html ./racket/doc/images/Overview.html ./racket/doc/local-redirect/local-redirect.js ./racket/doc/math/flonum.html ./racket/doc/math/special.html ./racket/doc/racklog/racket-w-logic.html ./racket/doc/release/HISTORY.txt ./racket/doc/search/plt-index.js ./racket/doc/sgl/blueboxes.rktd ./racket/doc/sgl/doc-index.html ./racket/doc/sgl/gl.html ./racket/doc/tools/drracket_frame.html ./racket/doc/tools/drracket_unit.html ./racket/lib/collects/ffi/examples/magick.rkt I can't see a relevant source file, did I miss it? If not, what do I do now? Have I missed some crucial source searching techniques, either specific to Racket or in general? [side note: I wish it was possible to click a frame/widget and inspect/change it live (I have recently discovered Smalltalk and the 'liveliness' aspect of it is pretty rad)] ____________________ Racket Users list: <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users</a> </blockquote></div> </div>