rfindler
commented
9 months ago I think it would be great to use color-textoid<%> in any place where that would work, in preference to text%! I'm not sure which ones make sense or how hard it would be to get everything lined up properly (maybe just a matter of adjusting the docs and maybe some checks for some other functionality?). I'd be delighted if you're interested in making a PR. I can also try to jump in an help out in places where my experience might make stuff go faster.
greghendershott
Opening a separate issue about something discussed on #634 but which is more general; prompted by today's https://github.com/greghendershott/racket-mode/issues/668.
IIUC, ever since the addition of expeditor, it's better if a lang can assume just a color-textoid% interface, not a full
text%, for things like drracket:indentation, drracket:range-indentation, and drracket:grouping-position. That way, it will work with expeditor, as well as tools like the back end support forracket-hash-lang-mode.However DrRacket support for #lang-based Languages still talks about
text%orracket:text%.On the one hand, its advice literally satisfies its title -- making langs work in DrRacket :smile:. And some of the items are in fact only intended to work in DrRacket, like drracket:toolbar-buttons or definitions-text-surrogate. (Some of these may indeed need a full
text%.)On the other hand, the advice prevents other items as mentioned above from working in expeditor or other tools.
So it seems like the page needs to be updated, or split, or something?
Although I was tempted to make a PR, I wanted to ask first and see what ideas people had? How to title, organize, etc.? I'm also fine deferring if someone else like @rfindler prefers to draft it instead.