Weird... I thought it was common knowledge!
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> On 3 Nov 2021, at 15:36, Michal Wallace <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Oh wow. ctrl+shift arrow in jqt!!
> 
> I had no idea. All this time I've just been hitting ctrl-d to get the
> history. Thanks for the tip! :)
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 10:51 AM 'Mike Day' via Programming <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Devon,  in your initial msg,  you mentioned
>> “Anyway, for really simple things I do in emacs, like recalling the
>> previous command...”
>> 
>> You probably mean something else entirely,  but just in case it helps,
>> the hot key combination ctrl-shift-up arrow goes back up previous commands;
>> ctrl-shift-down moves back to the present.  Iirc, this feature was
>> available in J from the very beginning,  inherited from Sharp APL, or the
>> like,  I believe.
>> 
>> Sorry if I’ve misunderstood the question!
>> 
>> Mike
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>>> On 3 Nov 2021, at 12:02, joseph turco <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I personally just use the console from terminal. The jQt is nice though.
>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Nov 1, 2021, 10:35 AM Devon McCormick <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks, Bill.  It's
>>>> wd 'set strength text ..'
>>>> The ID has to come first but this solved almost all the problems I was
>>>> having with this bit of code.
>>>> I have something basically workable but with a number of flaws:
>>>> https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/NYCJUG/2021-11-09#Show-and-tell .
>>>> 
>>>>>> On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 9:11 PM bill lam <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> The wiki page that you followed was written J602 wd commands. Jqt wd
>>>>> commands adopted a similar but different syntax. J602 set command
>> always
>>>>> sets the 'text' property and is implied, but Jqt needs the explicit
>>>> 'text'
>>>>> because it can also set other properties, see wiki wd commands
>> reference.
>>>>> J602:
>>>>> 
>>>>> wd 'set strength *entropy ',(":<.(".size)*2^.#alph),' bits'
>>>>> 
>>>>> Jqt
>>>>> wd 'set text strength *entropy ',(":<.(".size)*2^.#alph),' bits'
>>>>> 
>>>>> (untested)
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 3:06 AM Devon McCormick <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Does anyone use the JQt environment for J much?  I'm taking a stab at
>>>>>> updating and extending the code here:
>>>>>> https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/User:Andrew_Nikitin/Literate .
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I want to see how suitable I find J for developing a GUI app.  Now
>> that
>>>>>> I've started, I'm starting to wonder if I should have started with a
>>>>>> web-based front-end instead but I thought it might be easier to start
>>>>> from
>>>>>> something which presumably worked at some point.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> That aside, I'm finding it painful to use the JQt interface compared
>> to
>>>>> my
>>>>>> normal custom of running J under emacs.  I feel I have to use JQt
>>>> because
>>>>>> of the GUI component.  I think I once got some GUI-based code working
>>>>> under
>>>>>> emacs but that was years ago and would be too much of a distraction
>>>> from
>>>>> my
>>>>>> immediate project.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> You can see what I've done so far here:
>>>>>> https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/NYCJUG/2021-11-09#What_I_Have_So_Far
>> .
>>>>>> This just brings up the initial window; none of the buttons work
>> except
>>>>> the
>>>>>> one to cancel the dialog.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Anyway, for really simple things I do in emacs, like recalling the
>>>>> previous
>>>>>> command, it is not obvious how I would do this in JQt.  At the moment,
>>>>> I'm
>>>>>> working mostly in emacs and loading my code into JQt, so this may have
>>>> to
>>>>>> be how I deal with it but I'm interested in other people's experience
>>>>>> working with JQt.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Devon
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Devon McCormick, CFA
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Quantitative Consultant
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>>>> 
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>>>> 
>>>> Devon McCormick, CFA
>>>> 
>>>> Quantitative Consultant
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