Re: [racket] newbie drracket usage questions

2012-07-31 Thread D Herring
On 07/31/2012 03:45 AM, Pierpaolo Bernardi wrote: I don't know about the return data structures part, but, if finding manually the definition of functions suffices you, you can "check syntax" and then right clicking on a symbol offers the "jump to definition" command. Thanks to everyone for th

Re: [racket] newbie drracket usage questions

2012-07-31 Thread Robby Findler
Since no one mentioned it yet: if you want a shell-script based way to tell the docs what to search for, you can use 'raco docs lambda' to search for 'lambda'. Robby On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 7:38 AM, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > > On Jul 31, 2012, at 1:52 AM, D Herring wrote: > >> Thanks for the q

Re: [racket] newbie drracket usage questions

2012-07-31 Thread Matthias Felleisen
On Jul 31, 2012, at 1:52 AM, D Herring wrote: > Thanks for the quick response. Unfortunately, I had found the web browser > thingy (and had to enable javascript for it to work). :) > > I am looking for functions that search for racket functions and return racket > data structures that descri

Re: [racket] newbie drracket usage questions

2012-07-31 Thread Pierpaolo Bernardi
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 7:52 AM, D Herring wrote: > On 07/31/2012 01:15 AM, Richard Cleis wrote: >> > I am looking for functions that search for racket functions and return > racket data structures that describe them. The key pieces of information is > the name (so it can be used) and the source

Re: [racket] newbie drracket usage questions

2012-07-30 Thread D Herring
On 07/31/2012 01:15 AM, Richard Cleis wrote: On Jul 30, 2012, at 10:53 PM, D Herring wrote: Hi, How would one accomplish the following in DrRacket? "apropos" (CL/shell) or "lookfor" (Matlab) Given a search string, return a list of symbols with matching name or documentation. I found that XR

Re: [racket] newbie drracket usage questions

2012-07-30 Thread Richard Cleis
On Jul 30, 2012, at 10:53 PM, D Herring wrote: > Hi, > > How would one accomplish the following in DrRacket? > > "apropos" (CL/shell) or "lookfor" (Matlab) > Given a search string, return a list of symbols with matching name or > documentation. > I found that XRepl has the ,apropos command; bu

[racket] newbie drracket usage questions

2012-07-30 Thread D Herring
Hi, How would one accomplish the following in DrRacket? "apropos" (CL/shell) or "lookfor" (Matlab) Given a search string, return a list of symbols with matching name or documentation. I found that XRepl has the ,apropos command; but I haven't figured out an easy way to invoke it in DrRacket.