The contract information doesn't change based on the mouse, fwiw. Robby
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Jordan Johnson <j...@fellowhuman.com> wrote: > I'm curious what the objectionable distraction is: the mere presence of the > arrow, or the action of the arrow's window with contract info popping in and > out as you mouse over identifiers? > > If it's the latter, than perhaps it would help to just put more of a delay > (as tooltips have) in before exposing the contract info. (I'm trying to > figure out why *I* haven't found it a distraction, and maybe it's just > because I don't use the mouse very much.) > > Best, > jmj > -- > Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. > > Grant Rettke <gret...@acm.org> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Nadeem Abdul Hamid <nad...@acm.org> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Grant Rettke <gret...@acm.org> wrote: >>>> >>>> You are an accomplished programmer that got this far without online >>>> compilation that was added this year? >>> >>> Well, I don't know about others, but prior to that becoming available, I >>> would often have to keep hitting the "Check syntax" button or key command >>> manually. Online compilation is just DrRacket continuously running "Check >>> Syntax" for you so you don't have to manually do that - and it *is* very >>> convenient and smoothes out the development >>> process, reducing a distraction >>> that is otherwise present. >> >> >> Maybe this would help, I have only used Check Syntax two or three >> times ever when I wanted to rename a variable because it was used in >> more than 5 places. What other problems does it solve? >> >>> Other industrial-strength IDEs (e.g. Eclipse, MS >>> VS, IBM's Java Visual-something- I forget the name) all provide this >>> feature >>> of continuous background syntax analysis to enable various types of >>> refactorings and code navigation. >> >> >> Yea that is nice. My original question was about how to remove the >> arrows and the thing in the upper right hand corner, and the solution >> was to disable online compilation. Is there way just to remove that >> stuff but keep the online compilation stuff? >> >>> Another nice thing about online >>> compilation is the additional feature of being able to view snippets of >>> function signatures (i.e. help) right in the corner of the editor. >> >> >> That arrow is so distracting. Can we move it into the status line on the >> bottom? >> >> Thanks for explaining why you value it. >> ____________________ >> Racket Users list: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/users ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
