On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Vincent St-Amour wrote:
> When the cursor is inside a function call and the operator is
> recognized by eldoc (both standard library functions and user-defined
> functions defined in the same file), the function's header and (if
> known) return type is displayed in
At Mon, 2 Jan 2012 14:49:34 +,
Erich Rast wrote:
> But here is another suggestion that I would find
> tremendously helpful: an auto-hover live help that pops up information
> about function definitions plus a short explanation of what the function
> does directly in the IDE,
Similar to that, I
Hello,
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 15:35, Juan Fatas Huang wrote:
> How about Sphinx?
>
I think that Sphinx collides with having Scribble -- the documentation
toolset for Racket (and not only).
Back to the Python department, I was reading some documentation today, and
I found specifically helpful to
How about Sphinx?
Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful
> documentation, written by Georg Brandl and licensed under the BSD license.
Benefits:
-- host on github (for everyone who love to contribute)
-- the website can run on http://readthedocs.org/ e.g.
http://r
Well, there is more to be done. It would be nice to get completion,
etc. Someday. :)
Robby
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Erich Rast wrote:
> Oops...I didn't know that. Please disregard my last mail.
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
>> FWIW, in DrRacket, you can type f1 to search for the text that's at
>>
Oops...I didn't know that. Please disregard my last mail.
Thanks a lot!
> FWIW, in DrRacket, you can type f1 to search for the text that's at
> the current insertion point and you can right click on a word to do a
> similar search.
Racket Users list:
http://lists.racket-
FWIW, in DrRacket, you can type f1 to search for the text that's at
the current insertion point and you can right click on a word to do a
similar search. The online check syntax makes it possible to jump
right to the docs for a given imported variable.
Robby
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Erich
I personally have no quirks with the existing documentation, I think
it's excellent. But here is another suggestion that I would find
tremendously helpful: an auto-hover live help that pops up information
about function definitions plus a short explanation of what the function
does directly in the
I don't like the idea of people solving "real world" problems
copy/paste'ing code from docs, which I'm not sure it's even possible
(e.g. what would be the example of call/cc?).
However, couple of times I've been in a position to write some general
usage examples of a function that we looked up in
Hello All,
It seems we are not seeing many/any actual suggestions for ways to improve the
Racket documentation. I have been thinking about this quite a bit. Writing good
documentation is hard and very time consuming. It is also a task which most
developers absolutely hate (myself included). I'v
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