Hi Vijay, I'm glad you found that useful. I don't remember exactly where I learned it... I agree it's not obvious.
I see it mentioned in A Brief J Reference - http://www.jsoftware.com/books/pdf/brief.pdf It's also mentioned in JHS's jhelp. I probably stumbled upon it somewhere and then committed it to muscle memory On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Vijay Lulla <[email protected]> wrote: > Joe, > How did you find out about ctrl+shift+up? I wasn't aware of it and it is > not listed as a shortcut in any of the menu items. I always found it > annoying to scroll up (either using mouse or up arrow key), especially when > the verb output is long, to previous entry and hit enter and then modify > it. However, thanks to you, now I know this shortcut so it will be helpful > from now on. > Thanks, > Vijay. > > > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 10:25 PM, Joe Bogner <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Often I need to do >> >> 6!:2 'f ''a''' >> >> or >> >> dissect '0{"1 (1!:0 ''addons'')' >> >> or >> >> (3 : 'smoutput ''hi''')'' >> >> It can be tricky to keep track of the double single quotes. Does >> anyone have any tricks or use any functions to make it easier? >> >> This is primarily in the interpreter, not for user in a production script >> >> Something like: >> >> quo =: ('`';'''') rplc~ ] >> >> dissect quo '0{"1 (1!:0 `addons`)' >> >> The backtick may not be the best choice for everyone, but I don't >> often use it in strings >> >> The nice thing is I can then just hit ctrl+shift+up to get the last >> statement and then drop the first part to get quo '0{"1 (1!:0 >> `addons`)' and then copy and paste the string to run it standalone >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
