[cturner]

Sensible defaults. Sure, it's a polish issue. Polish is a good thing, particularly for racket which aspires to and is succeeding at making scheme accessible.

When you fire up rebol, perl, ruby, python, awk for the first time, they don't send you off to poke around in preference screens. Type and go.

[djm]

My assumption was that most of the people who load up DrRacket don't go poking around for the teaching languages. It's a pretty useful IDE, not just for students. I usually use it unless I'm working with a large number of files in which case I prefer emacs.