Try Ctrl+D or Ctrl+Shift+Up On Jan 25, 2015 5:23 PM, "Piet de Jong" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I very much agree with this. > The J way of doing this is unintuitive and (according to me) the most > irritable cosmetic aspect in J. > If you space up, edit, and enter, then the displayed “history” is not an > accurate. > To maintain an accurate history one must space up, enter, edit, enter. > This is clumsy. > I recall raising this issue in a post quite a few years ago but to no > avail. > It would be easy to avoid the clumsiness and I urge J developers to make a > change. > Other than that, J is great. Thanks for all the development efforts. > > > On 26 Jan 2015, at 9:09 am, Tobia Conforto <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > The steps to recall and edit a line from the history in jqt are not very > > intuitive. The simplest sequence I could find is: 1. move to the line you > > wish to edit; 2. press enter to copy it to the bottom; 3. edit it; 4. > press > > enter to execute it. > > > > This is different from both regular CLI terminals (press ↑ or ^P to > recall > > previous lines, edit, press enter to execute) and other "editable" CLI > > interfaces, such as Dyalog. > > > > In Dyalog you 1. move to the line you wish to edit; 2. edit it in place; > 3. > > when you press enter to execute it, the original line is reverted to its > > original value, the new line is pasted at the bottom and executed. > > > > Personally I much prefer the "read-only history + one editable line" > > philosophy of regular terminals, but Dyalog's way of doing it is IMHO a > > good compromise. It "looks" like it's allowing to edit the history, but > > when you press enter, the old history is restored. > > > > In jqt there's one more keypress and you risk corrupting your history if > > you are not very careful. Am I missing some key shortcuts or settings? > > > > Tobia > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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
