We discussed this extensively a while a ago on this list in response to a comment by Simon Peyton Jones when he visited NEU for a few days -- Matthias
On Jun 4, 2010, at 10:47 PM, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > Perhaps also worth considering for inspiration is "elsoc", a useful hack that > Emacs has had for arguments quick-reference. > > "eldoc" does a transient display of the args to the innermost function/form > that point is in. This display appears in the ``echo area'' of the frame > (roughly, status bar at the bottom of the window), so you can glance at it, > but it doesn't get in your face while you're looking at the code and typing. > > http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Lisp-Doc.html > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ElDoc > > I'm sure that DrRacket would do it not as a hack like "eldoc", but instead > use some info that Check Syntax has. :) > > Neil V. > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
