Keybindings while editing text
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Description
Feature request:
Lines beginning with a semi colon consists of text. Therefore the keybindings ought to
work as "text" operations and not "s-exp" operations.
The example that keeps tripping me up:
While editing the text in a comment, I hit alt- to go back a word --- and is always surprised when the cursor moves out of the comment to the beginning of the previous s-expression.
In short: I'd love for alt+left and alt+right to become backward-word and forward-word in comment lines.
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
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Research direction
No files or tests are named. Start by locating DrRacket's keybinding handling for semicolon-prefixed comment lines and compare the text and s-expression operations. Verify Alt+Left and Alt+Right inside a comment; done means they move by words without leaving the comment.
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Assessment
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100