Are you thinking of totally removing any mode-ing/interpreting in the comment boxes? Or just saying you are going to have the boxes' mode match the file's mode? If it's the former, then my comments below are relevant.
My students and I use comment boxes when we want to display editable code in a comment. I do it often for function templates. It's nice that the coloration and indentation work in a comment box. But, wow, does a comment box totally seem to bloat the size of a source file! I do like that when I use a comment block and then "reindent all" DrRacket does not mess up the indentation inside the comment block. But what is difficult about the comment blocks (when we're using to auto-indent) is that if a template is in a block, then changing a template doesn't get auto-indented unless we uncomment it, edit it, then re-comment it. This is by far the biggest use I and my very few students have for comment boxes over blocks, especially when copying-and-pasting templates to create new ones. If it weren't for the function templates we wouldn't miss the comment boxes being able to be seen as code by DrRacket. -Paul > -----Original Message----- > From: dev-boun...@racket-lang.org [mailto:dev-boun...@racket-lang.org] On > Behalf Of Robby Findler > Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 6:58 PM > To: dev > Subject: [racket-dev] comment boxes > > Currently, comment boxes use Scheme mode inside them. This was just > reported as a bug to me. Anyone actually use this behavior and would > like to preserve it? (Should we have two kinds of comment boxes maybe? > Any opinions on how to put them into the GUI?) > > Robby > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
