On Sep 9, 2013, at 5:34 PM, William J. Bowman wrote: > Hello devs, > > This week, at least 2 students destroyed the File -> Install Package > feature of DrRacket on their machines. The students copied a URL into > the Package Source field several times, resulting in this error. > Appearently, the only way to solve this problem is to delete > racket-prefs.rktd.
It looks like this is fixed now. In particular, pasting a string with a newline signals an error right away. Apologies if you already knew that; I don't see a response to this e-mail in particular. Best, John Clements _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev