RE: [racket-users] Re: Alternatives to DrRacket

2018-01-12 Thread Jos Koot
-users] Re: Alternatives to DrRacket snip 6) In the preferences dialog (on a Mac at least), the "Revert All Preferences to Defaults" is unclear about whether the defaults are for the displayed tab or for all preferences. At least twice in the past, I've incorrectly assumed th

[racket-users] Re: Alternatives to DrRacket

2018-01-11 Thread JCG
Sorry for the delay. 1) Coloring of a #; commented-out S-expression, as in Emacs. 2) Code folding that is saved and yet compatible with external editors. The way I would go about dealing with the WXME format would be be to save two files, with the WXME format hidden somewhere (Sqlite or a fil

[racket-users] Re: Alternatives to DrRacket

2017-12-25 Thread George Neuner
On Mon, 25 Dec 2017 12:31:21 -0800 (PST), Zelphir Kaltstahl wrote: >In practice [custodian-limit-memory] has often prevented stuff from filling >up all RAM + swap, but I thought it was actually the memory limit and >nothing can go over it. >Good to know that this is wrong! >So it is rather like

Re: [racket-users] Re: Alternatives to DrRacket

2017-11-27 Thread George Neuner
On 11/27/2017 3:30 PM, Zelphir Kaltstahl wrote: Memory limits can be easily added to a program as well with the following code: ~~~ (define (Mb-to-B n) (* n 1024 1024)) (define MAX-BYTES (Mb-to-B 128)) (custodian-limit-memory (current-custodian) MAX-BYTES) ~~~ The problem with  custodian-l

[racket-users] Re: Alternatives to DrRacket

2017-11-27 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
I don’t want to stop the responses, but I do want to say thank you to all of you. You have given me a lot to think about. Kind regards, Stephen -- Kind regards, Stephen -- Ealing (London), UK -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. T

[racket-users] Re: Alternatives to DrRacket

2017-11-27 Thread Zelphir Kaltstahl
I mostly like the text navigation features I have in Emacs. I also like that I can run a shell inside Emacs and manage multiple buffers easily. Installing different color themes is easy too, while in DrRacket I would probably have to configure the colors myself (I might be wrong though, not sur

[racket-users] Re: Alternatives to DrRacket

2017-11-27 Thread ben.rudgers
I use Emacs because org-mode provides Babel and Babel lets me program in a literate style. In Emacs I can write literate code irrespective of language and I enjoy literate programming more than illiterate/unlitterate/conventional programming by a wide margin. Emacs org-mode lets me convert my

[racket-users] Re: Alternatives to DrRacket

2017-11-26 Thread HiPhish
I use Neovim and I'm working on a Racket client for it: https://gitlab.com/HiPhish/neovim.rkt One of the cool features Neovim has over Vim is that it provides an API for remote processes; a client application can connect to the editor and they can communicate with each other. What that means in