Re: DrScheme as Emacs-like kitchen sink

[Bill Richter <richter@math.nwu.edu>]

   From: Shriram Krishnamurthi <sk@cs.brown.edu>

   Bill, I can't for the life of me figure out what you want, exactly.
   Yeah, I know you want modes, but what do you want of *us*?  

Thanks, Shriram.  I tried to say what I wanted in my post.  Some
capability to run the command

drscheme -q -l .mred.textediting.prefs &

where -q would mean "don't read in .mred.prefs," just like Emacs.

And -l would mean "do read in this file".

.mred.textediting.prefs would be a version I'd create by killing
the indentation with the menu Edit -> Preferences -> Indenting

I bet that's easy, maybe even I could figure it out.

Also, will there be more documentation on how to use the DrScheme web
browser?  How about bookmark files?  How can I read the URL which I'm
visiting?  I clicked on your book HTDP on PLT and a message window
popped up and quickly gave the URL, must be a way to recover it.

   If you want us to implement it, forget about it.  (Notice I very
   carefully ducked post on c.l.s.)  If you want to implement it, go
   right ahead!

If I implement something like modes, will DrScheme accept it?  Are
there philosophical issues here, like DrScheme doesn't want to go the
Emacs-like kitchen sink route?