It's nice to have that option but it doesn't mean we shouldn't get the built-in editor "right".
Also I find these issues crop up more for me in the Term window than the Edit window and therefore wouldn't be resolved by using an external editor. Ric On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 3:42 PM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote: > You may also use external editor to edit scripts with the latest base > library installed from pacman. eg, > xedit jpath '~config/base.cfg' > > The choice of editor can be set inide J IDE config file. > > Птн, 10 Дек 2010, Tikkanz писал(а): >> "Home" currently takes cursor directly to the start of the line. It >> would be preferable if the cursor instead went to beginning of the >> first non-whitespace character on the line. If "Home" is pressed a >> second time the cursor should move to the start of line. >> >> Ctrl+arrow goes to beginning/end of last/next "word" but only >> alphanumerics are counted as words so any punctuation (of which J code >> has many) is ignored. As a result I often find myself inadvertently >> Ctrl+arrowing past the start of the line to somewhere on the previous >> line. I'm not sure what the best/easiest fix is. Perhaps punctuation >> symbols could be included in the list of valid word characters, or the >> first non-whitespace character on the line could be recognized as >> well, or (particularly in Term) the context could be only within the >> current line (not the whole window). >> >> If I'm in the Edit window and press Ctrl+r, the current line of the >> ijs script is sent to Term, catenated to the end of the executable >> line and then that whole line is executed. If the executable line is >> not empty, the results are almost always unintended. From memory jwd >> didn't use to do this. I think the ijs line was sent to an empty ijx >> executable line before execution. >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > -- > regards, > ==================================================== > GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
