Re: [racket-users] Way to open DrRacket at a specific file line?

2015-05-29 Thread Robby Findler
Ah: with the command line the initial time I think it can be made to work. I was worried about the communication of positions later on. Robby On Friday, May 29, 2015, Laurent laurent.ors...@gmail.com wrote: I was optimistic this could work because when you launch DrRacket with bad flags it

Re: [racket-users] Way to open DrRacket at a specific file line?

2015-05-29 Thread Laurent
I was optimistic this could work because when you launch DrRacket with bad flags it tries to open files with these names, at least on Ubuntu: $ drracket my-file.rkt --line will try to open the file --line and complain with a GUI message. So I guess that means the non recognized flags are sent to

Re: [racket-users] Way to open DrRacket at a specific file line?

2015-05-29 Thread Laurent
I see. I suppose that on the second call to $ drracket -singleInstance, it's main.rkt that is visited again? I'd be surprised if singleInstance discarded all the flags though. Instead of flags though, one could write something like file.rkt@12,15 to specify the line and column, so that the OS

Re: [racket-users] Way to open DrRacket at a specific file line?

2015-05-28 Thread Robby Findler
This is fine advice. If you wanted to prepare just a little bit more, you might run raco pkg update --clone drracket (and then respond yes to the prompt). This would, in the directory you're in, create a drracket sub directory and a few others that contain the source code of DrRacket, linked to

Re: [racket-users] Way to open DrRacket at a specific file line?

2015-05-28 Thread Laurent
For what it's worth, I think these are some of the relevant lines: https://github.com/racket/drracket/blob/21c155c46c58c5d01ff984df27a77c19f4481640/drracket/drracket/private/drracket-normal.rkt#L19

Re: [racket-users] Way to open DrRacket at a specific file line?

2015-05-28 Thread Laurent
Regarding contribution, this should at least be a good start: http://blog.racket-lang.org/2012/11/tutorial-contributing-to-racket.html http://www.greghendershott.com/2013/04/a-guide-for-infrequent-contributors-to-racket.html However, note that racket has been split into many different packages

Re: [racket-users] Way to open DrRacket at a specific file line?

2015-05-28 Thread Matthias Felleisen
On May 28, 2015, at 12:20 PM, Josh Grams wrote: I asked how to build it from source, but just got pointed to the snapshot binaries instead of getting a real answer. That's a serious mistake and I apologize. It shouldn't happen -- Matthias -- You received this message because you are

Re: [racket-users] Way to open DrRacket at a specific file line?

2015-05-28 Thread Lux
Do you mean opening the file from a menu within DrRacket or from the outside, like from the command line? Hi Laurent, thanks for your answer. Yes, I mean from the command line (more specifically I need it to be launched as a system command, which is almost the same). I am on Linux but I

Re: [racket-users] Way to open DrRacket at a specific file line?

2015-05-28 Thread Laurent
Hi Lux, Do you mean opening the file from a menu within DrRacket or from the outside, like from the command line? On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Lux glsdes...@gmail.com wrote: As much as I love vim/gvim and configured it to do anything I want, I can not code anymore without DrRacket.

Re: [racket-users] Way to open DrRacket at a specific file line?

2015-05-28 Thread Laurent
Ok. Some elements of answer: - DrRacket can be started with the option -singleInstance to make sure that an existing window is reused to open new files. This option must be used each time the `drracket` executable is called, so it's better to simply make an alias. This also requires libunique to

Re: [racket-users] Way to open DrRacket at a specific file line?

2015-05-28 Thread Lux
I see it is possible to do now, but require some not negligible amount of work, at least at this time for me... Thanks for the informations. I will continue to search for an hack on background, nonetheless... I will let you all know if I find something. Ok. Some elements of answer: - DrRacket

Re: [racket-users] Way to open DrRacket at a specific file line?

2015-05-28 Thread Matthias Felleisen
On May 28, 2015, at 3:40 AM, Lux glsdes...@gmail.com wrote: I can not code anymore without DrRacket. +1 I know DrRacket has some downsides, but I sure wish many more people would see the light, use it, and help identify and better yet fix the problems. Thanks for the vote of confidence

Re: [racket-users] Way to open DrRacket at a specific file line?

2015-05-28 Thread Lux
OFF-TOPIC: I feel like I can do anything, because of this I can not thank you and all others for your work enough. Just to let you know my feelings and appreciation. +1 I know DrRacket has some downsides, but I sure wish many more people would see the light, use it, and help identify and

Re: [racket-users] Way to open DrRacket at a specific file line?

2015-05-28 Thread Josh Grams
On 2015-05-28 09:59AM, Matthias Felleisen wrote: I know DrRacket has some downsides, but I sure wish many more people would see the light, use it, and help identify and better yet fix the problems. I was interested in that, but couldn't figure out how to build it. I had found a couple of things