quickscript notes

quickscript-notes.md

• docs, tutorials, etc.

  • docs
    • hooks
  • opinionated guide to drracket scripts

• misc

  • drracket now has a command palette!
  • request for evaluate expression (deduced from location)

• samples

  • quickscript-extra
    • customizing
  • quickscript scripts for drracket
  • quickscript competition
  • select-or-send-sexp.rkt - install via url2script which comes with quickscript-extra (default keybinding seems to be ctrl-shift-enter)
  • command palette - manual installation of search-list-box was not needed (perhaps that got installed automatically or via some other means?)
  • for study
    • delete-line
    • remove-trailing-spaces

• things i wish i had figured out sooner

  • (send ed <what can go here?>[ ...]) - ed, interactions, and definitions are all text% objects (and text% implements editor%) so see the following links (at least) for details of possibilities and also the containing document The Racket Graphical Interface for more info:
    • docs for text% (e.g. mentions line-start-position)
    • docs for editor% (e.g. mentions print)

• a selection of some (send ed ...) determined via samples (see above for info on detailed docs)

  • (send ed begin-edit-sequence)
  • (send ed end-edit-sequence)
  • (send ed get-text[ ...])
  • (send ed delete <start-pos> <end-pos>)
  • (send ed insert <string>)
  • line
    • (send ed line-start-position <line-number>)
    • (send ed line-end-position <line-number>)
  • position
    • (send ed set-position <pos>)
    • (send ed get-start-position)
    • (send ed get-end-position)
    • (send ed classify-position <pos>)
    • (send ed get-token-range <pos>)
    • (send ed get-character <pos>)
    • (send ed position-line <pos>)
  • paragraph
    • (define par (send ed position-paragraph <pos>)) - move-line.rkt
    • (send ed paragraph-start-position (- par 1) #f) - move-line.rkt
    • (send ed paragraph-end-position (- par 1) #f) - move-line.rkt
    • (send ed paragraph-start-position par #f) - move-line.rkt
    • (send ed paragraph-end-position par #f) - move-line.rkt
  • clipboard
    • (send the-clipboard get-clipboard-string 0) - clipboard->text_url.rkt
    • (send the-clipboard get-clipboard-data <mime-type-string> 0) - clipboard->text_url.rkt
    • (send the-clipboard set-clipboard-string <string> 0) - abstract-variable.rkt
  • pdf
    • (send ed print #t #t 'pdf) - print-editor.rkt
  • symbolic expression
    • (send ed get-forward-sexp <position>) - provided-by.rkt
    • (send ed get-backward-sexp <position>) - provided-by.rkt
    • (send ed select-backward-sexp) - complete-word.rkt
    • (send ed find-up-sexp <position>) - extract-function.rkt
  • (send ed tabify-selection <start> <end>) - extract-function.rkt
  • (send ed get-visible-line-range <start-line> <end-line>) - bookmarks.rkt
  • (send ed get-top-level-window) - bookmarks.rkt
  • (send ed move-position 'left #f 'line) - join-previous-line.rkt
  • (send ed get-word-at ...) - def-signatures.rkt
  • (send ed get-dc) - def-signatures.rkt
  • (send ed editor-location-to-dc-location ...) - def-signatures.rkt
  • (send ed get-canvas) - def-signatures.rkt
  • (send ed get-lexer) - classify-position-quickscript.rkt