If you want 3 tasks instead of 2 (everyone likes 3 over 2, no :-), I’d say 
generalize this 
 
> •       hide the ‘check syntax’ button if background expansion is *enabled*

to ‘hide all buttons when '#lang * racket/*’ is chosen and add a preference 
that allows people to generalize the regexp to their desire. 

Rationale: This makes additional screenstate available to programs. 
Alternatively, this new space could be used for other messages 





> On Nov 26, 2017, at 8:19 AM, Stephen De Gabrielle <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Matthias.
> 
> Your enthusiasm and guidance is appreciated - I do what I can. 
> 
> I'm prioritising; 
>  a) adding some more recent pictures to DrR documentation (adding images from 
> racket 6.11) 
> a) starting on an address/context bar - 
> https://github.com/racket/drracket/issues/171 
> <https://github.com/racket/drracket/issues/171>
> 
> Also - thank you to Robby who has already provided much guidance and support.
> 
> Stephen
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 24 Nov 2017 at 21:30, Matthias Felleisen <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> On Nov 24, 2017, at 9:35 AM, Stephen De Gabrielle <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> I’m thinking about spending some of my spare time on DrRacket and the GUI 
>> libraries and would appreciate your feedback about where you think I should 
>> put my efforts, both in the ideas below (that I have cribbed from other 
>> IDE’s) and any suggestions you have.
>> 
> 
> Let me start with a big “thank you.”  Many of these things are needed and 
> will greatly improve DrR’s usability. When I run my Sw Dev course at 
> Northeastern, I allow students to use whatever language/IDE they want. I 
> often see ideas in new IDEs that we have/thought of a long time ago and think 
> “cool perhaps they imitated us and Robby should feel immensely flattered.”  
> And then I see cool ideas in these new IDEs and I am jealous. I don’t want to 
> be jealous, I just want these features :-) 
> 
>>  I don’t want to go down any paths that might be undesirable in general, but 
>> also specifically in the role as a IDE for teaching/learning. 
>> 
> 
> Totally understood. 
> 
>> I believe the concept of ‘projects’ (like in xcode) is undesirable in this 
>> context, but please correct me if I am wrong about this.
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> Correct. If you ever feel the need for a project, we need to improve the 
> language. 
> 
> I’ve read your list and I like all of the ideas. So w/o sounding like someone 
> who will steal all your time, can I have all of it :-) 
> 
> — Matthias
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Kind regards,
> Stephen
> --
> Ealing (London), UK

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