Running racket in a terminal with readline 6 has excruciating delays
in response and bizarrely slow pasting. The culprit is probably a bug
in readline v6.2 that causes the rl_event_hook to be called repeatedly
even when input is ready. See also the discussion here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2012-06/msg00005.html
It's not clear whether racket can work around the issue in readline 6,
but it can at least use readline 5 instead when it is available.
I originally picked "under" as the preposition to go before
a platform name, but obviously you should build "on" a
platform, and "under" suddenly annoys me. The choice of "on"
is now codified in the documentation style guide. Meanwhile,
"Unix" insted of "X" seems more clear and consistent in the
`racket/gui' docs.
More usefully, this patch also fixes a few out-of-date
platform-specific claims.
--- in particular, it no longer blocks on a read request; the
call to the readline library now uses a separate thread,
so that the input port can return an event
file. (That is, it does not require the file to have a `name'
entry.)
* The name shown when setup works is the directory name, followed by
the `name' field from the info file when specified.
* This means that many `name's are no longer needed, so I'm removing
them. To see if you need a `name' entry, consider that the name
will be shown like this:
... foo (<your name here>)
This means that if the name is the same as the directory name, then
there is no point in having it. I also removed cases where the name
differed only in its capitalization for collections where the case
is obvious.
* Also, for subcollections, the name should clarify the name of the
subcollection in context. For example "Acknowledgments" explains
what scribbling/acks is, but there's no need to add the context name
as in "Scribblings: Acknowledgments".
* There may also be a point in keeping names for other uses. One such
example was in games, where the name field was used in the PLT Games
application. (This was changed to default on the directory name, so
it is no longer needed in most games.) Another example is in planet
packages.
svn: r8629
