Oh-- I realized what I was doing wrong. I've pushed a change to fix 'new'. 'send' is still eluding me, tho. Maybe I'll see what's wrong another time.
Thanks for pointing this out. Robby On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Robby Findler <ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote: > I'm doing the opposite. I agree that the docs should match the right > style, but DrRacket is generally what we consider to the be the right > style. > > Robby > > On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Nick Shelley <nickmshel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm not sure I understand. Are you trying to change scribble to look more >> like DrRacket's indenting? >> >> The background to my original question was that I started going through the >> GUI docs at http://docs.racket-lang.org/gui/windowing-overview.html and >> noticed when I typed it into DrRacket it wouldn't indent the same, so I >> assumed that the docs had the correct style and I just didn't know how to >> set it up in DrRacket. >> >> I guess my new question is, what is the best way to write OO code that uses >> new and a bunch of bracketed arguments? For examples of what kind of code >> I'm referring to, see the windowing docs I linked to above. >> >> As far as scribble mirroring DrRacket, I think in general it would be good >> to have all the code in the docs represent the best style for that type of >> code and then make sure DrRacket's defaults make that easy. Is that what >> you're doing with this diff? >> >> Sorry if I completely misunderstood your response. >> >> On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Robby Findler <ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu> >> wrote: >>> >>> I looked into this a little bit and with the diff below, it starts to >>> get close to make the docs indent the way DrRacket does, but it looks >>> like getting closer is going to be complicated because of the way the >>> layout is set up and, I guess, that the layout is set up that way >>> because that's the best compromise with the html/pdf backed that's >>> been found. >>> >>> So I'm not really sure if the right thing is to try to lay out the >>> table differently, or perhaps I'm missing something about the way the >>> current things are set up that there is another simple tweak to do. >>> >>> In any case, the diff below makes the racket/draw canvas% docs's >>> constructor line the first argument up under the "w" new "new", >>> instead of under the "c" in "canvas%". The current setup seems to have >>> the "new canvas%" all in a single cell in the canvas and judicious use >>> of (hspace 1) doesn't seem to help. >>> >>> Robby >>> >>> diff --git a/collects/scribble/private/manual-proc.rkt >>> b/collects/scribble/private/manual-proc.rkt >>> index 5499aab..6780390 100644 >>> --- a/collects/scribble/private/manual-proc.rkt >>> +++ b/collects/scribble/private/manual-proc.rkt >>> @@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ >>> (list flow-spacer) >>> (list flow-spacer flow-spacer >>> flow-spacer flow-spacer))] >>> - [one-ok? (tagged+arg-width . < . 60)]) >>> + [one-ok? (and (not (eq? mode 'new)) (tagged+arg-width >>> . < . 60))]) >>> (list >>> (make-table >>> "prototype" >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Nick Shelley <nickmshel...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > Punny, right? Anyway, I can't figure out how to get DrRacket to indent >>> > like this: >>> > >>> > (define msg (new message% [parent frame] >>> > [label "No events so far..."])) >>> > >>> > like it is in the docs. I've tried putting new in the begin-like, >>> > define-like, and lambda-like sections of the preferences and none of them >>> > do >>> > it. I'm sure there's a simple solution that's in an obvious place in the >>> > docs, but it's eluding me right now. (I at least looked in the >>> > most obvious >>> > place that I could think of, which is the DrRacket preferences section, >>> > but >>> > the entry on indenting wasn't very helpful for what I want to know: "This >>> > panel controls which keywords DrRacket recognizes for indenting, and how >>> > each keyword is treated.") >>> > >>> > ____________________ >>> > Racket Users list: >>> > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users >>> > >> >> ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
