On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Paul Ojanen <engin...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > 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.
I think you're saying that you want to re-indent code inside a comment box, right? If so, did you try selecting the code and hitting "tab"? Robby > 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