drracket-files.html should be more explicit about location of MacOS preferences
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Description
This is a very, very small request for clarification in one of the online documentation files.
Section 3.5.3 of the documentation file drracket-files.html says:
On Mac OS, preferences are stored in "org.racket-lang.prefs.rktd" in the user’s preferences folder.
I've been using MacOS daily for over ten years, and occasionally before that--mainly as a unix system, but also for Mac GUI apps--and I had no idea where my "preferences folder" was. A web search brought me to this page, which told me that the (standard?) location is: ~/Library/Preferences . (That page refers to MacOS 10.9, but I found the location to be correct on 10.15.)
Therefore the Racket preferences file is (usually?) ~/Library/Preferences/org.racket-lang.prefs.rktd. It would be better if the doc file said that.
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Open drracket-files.html and read section 3.5.3, focusing on the sentence describing the Mac OS preferences folder. Update the documentation to state the usual ~/Library/Preferences location and the org.racket-lang.prefs.rktd file path. Done means the section explicitly tells readers where to find the preferences file.
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- documentation
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- Documentation
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