FWIW, I think there's two other little complexities that come if we did want to change it (essentially these being reasons not to bother): sometimes the focus is on a button (if you click "run" on some platforms); the insertion point changes to the location of the error if the error is in the definitions. And I'm probably forgetting something, too.
There more I think about it, the more I think there's a lot of stuff happening there that has slowly been shaped for a long time. (And at this point I'm really wishing that there was a test suite that we could rely on to actually know what is happening, but I never made one. Shame on me.) Robby On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 2:51 AM, Eli Barzilay <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, I know that it's been doing that for a long time -- the reason I > said that I'd hope for a change is because I disliked it for a long > time... I think that making the focus change without explicit > intention to do so is usually a bad idea. > > But since it's been this way for a while I knew that it's unlikely to > change. (Also, since it's been this way your fix makes more sense as > things currently are.) > > > Four minutes ago, Robby Findler wrote: >> There isn't really a "where it is". The focus goes to the >> interaction window unless there's an error with a source in the >> definitions, in which case it goes to the definitions window. Things >> have been doing that for a _long_ time so I'm reluctant to mess with >> that. >> >> Robby >> >> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Eli Barzilay <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I'd hope for this to go the other way -- for the focus to remain >> > where it is. (But I'd say the same on the behavior when both >> > windows are visible too, and the focus is in the interactions -- >> > I'd like it to show the highlighted error in that case, but keep >> > the focus in the interactions.) > > -- > ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: > http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
