wish: hyperlinks in comments are made clickable

[mbutterick]

Or right-click-openable.

[spdegabrielle]

Would this be a 'good first issue'?

[rfindler]

I think a good approach to this would probably be to be patterned after the way that spell checking works (except not call out to spell program but use some kind of regexp to notice url-like things).

[spdegabrielle]

ok i'll try work on this

[spdegabrielle]

framework/private/aspell ? No.
I think this is in https://github.com/racket/drracket/blob/master/drracket/drracket/private/unit.rkt
(daunting is an understatement)

[rfindler]

Yes, you want to do this in the colorer, I am pretty sure.

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[spdegabrielle]

@rfindler I’m wondering how I edit DrRacket in (unit.rkt) without editing the instance of DrRacket I’m currently using? (i've made that mistake before and had to do a full reinstall)

Forking and loading a local copy and running raco pkg install
just gets me

% raco pkg install
Linking current directory as a package
raco pkg install: package is currently installed in a wider scope
  package: drracket
  installed scope: installation
  given scope: user
% 

i should I rename drracket temporarily so I can load it again?

Note: from @Metaxal

Simplistic but fast answer: here's a quickscript for that:
#lang racket/base
(require quickscript
net/sendurl)
(define-script open-url
#:label "open-url"
(λ (selection)
(send-url selection)
#f))
Select the url string in DrRacket, then click on Scripts > open-url and voilà.

[samth]

You want "raco pkg update --clone drracket".

[spdegabrielle]

thanks @samth
I’m currently waiting for raco pkg update --clone drracket to complete.
I’m not clear on how I can ‘run’ the cloned instance of DrRacket, while continuing to use the original DrRacket?

[samth]

That is the same DrRacket as you would be running. That's what I do to edit it, almost always.

[spdegabrielle]

So I can't have two instances of the same package running at the same time on a single instance of racket.
That explains why LO(on slack) has two instances of racket - I coudn't work out why he had a duplicate of racket, just to work on a package.

[rfindler]

@spdegabrielle I use two DrRackets, typically when I'm working on DrRacket (or the contract system or other things that DrRacket relies on and might be broken). That's why there is that checkbox in the bottom of the "File|Open Require Path...." menu item's dialog. Using a different DrRacket than the one with the code you're editing isn't ideal (as DrRacket will sometimes follow cross-module links to the wrong one) but hopefully it isn't too too horrible.

[spdegabrielle]

I get it now. I've just installed minimal-racket, so I have a 'clean' DrRacket. Once --cloneis finished, I just need add my fork as a remote, make a branch for my changes and I can get started.
Thank you both.

[rfindler]

I actually just have two git checkouts of racket and each has an extra-pkgs directory where I've cloned a bunch of things (for DrRacket, gui and drracket are the important ones). At night, after pulling the latest, I usually do "cd one-of-the-directories ; make both ; cd the-other-one ; make both". Not that you asked :)

[spdegabrielle]

@rfindler good tip. I need to do the ‘two checkouts’ approach or I will rapidly be left behind. 7.7 is coming like a freight train. 🚂