In J602 when the cursor was at the last line of the input screen, a simple mouse scroll added open space below that position. Not in J80x. I miss it often.
R.E. Boss > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:programming- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of chris burke > Sent: maandag 26 januari 2015 16:37 > To: Programming forum > Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Recalling and editing lines in jqt > > > A smaller thing which I would like when recalling stuff is that the > cursor position would be saved when using Enter on a previous line to pull > it down. A lot of times I automatically click where I want to edit a line, > after having it pulled down. This would save some mouse or cursor key work. > > > Also, I like the smart home key behavior (first going to the first > non-space character before skipping to the real home). Could it be extended > to also work when selecting stuff with shift-home? > > Yes to both, thanks. I'll try to get them in the next release. > > > On 26 January 2015 at 02:15, Jan-Pieter Jacobs > <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I agree the current recall behavior is unintuitive, and often confusion, > > especially when using the J session as a scratch pad. > > When trying out different things, not paying too much attention to where > > you do the edit, all edited commands and their outputs are inconsistent, > > and thus useless. Of course, changing the default workflow will upset a lot > > of people. > > > > A solution that eg. wxMaxima[1] has gone for is putting output belonging > to > > changed commands in grey, marking the output as not corresponding with > the > > command above. Executing the command in place replaces this output in > the > > history with an updated version. > > This forced update could for instance be another shortcut (eg. ctrl-enter), > > without interfering with the "standard" way J's session works. > > > > I can imagine there's a fair amount of code going into implementing this, > > as it would mean keeping track of where which commands and their output > are > > put, but I think it would be a nice addition which defuses this recurrent > > issue people seem to have with J. > > > > Either way, I'm open for brainstorming about this. > > > > A smaller thing which I would like when recalling stuff is that the cursor > > position would be saved when using Enter on a previous line to pull it > > down. A lot of times I automatically click where I want to edit a line, > > after having it pulled down. This would save some mouse or cursor key > work. > > > > Also, I like the smart home key behavior (first going to the first > > non-space character before skipping to the real home). Could it be > extended > > to also work when selecting stuff with shift-home? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jan-Pieter > > > > [1]: http://wxmaxima.sourceforge.net/ > > > > 2015-01-26 7:01 GMT+01:00 Skip Cave <[email protected]>: > > > > > In jqt on Win 8.1 I just go to the line in question and hit enter. That > > > moves a copy of the line to the bottom of the session, but doesn't > > execute > > > it. Then I can edit it, and then execute it by hitting enter on that > > line. > > > > > > Skip > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
