Mike, nice to "see you"!
The Mac, being a little different, seems to conflict with
Windows user expectations. I am bothered by the ephemeral
nature of .ijx - and the misleading (imho) name of "session
log". The fact that the .ijx contents are completely fluid
and you can do things like CMDa Delete and erase all of them,
or even worse, edit earlier lines in place. That has always
disturbed me ... to the point that I mostly use a terminal
window to run j on my Macs - in addition to providing a
stable session log, the terminal sessions are stored and
you can search back through them during later instances of j.
I find this a very useful feature - and the OS X terminal
application is the best terminal I have ever used, by far.
Combined with a text editor like emacs or even vi, it is
really nice.
The only/main disadvantage is that jconsole doesn't allow
such convenient access to labs and graphics as the ide.
- joey
At 17:56 -0700 2006/10/17, Mike Powell wrote:
I'm learning J and find it helpful to work with 3 windows open
together. I have the 1.ijx window, a .ijs script I'm working on and
the Help window in Safari (the Apple browser). As I write in the
.ijs window, I usually save and then switch to the .ijx window where
I load and play around with my coding efforts. After a while doing
this the .ijx can become quite messy. There comes a time when I seek
the easy way out and go to close the .ijx window. On the Mac, the
usual behaviour is that pressing the red button at top-left closes
the window, but leaves the application running. To my
disappointment, pressing red gets me the "Do I want to close"
prompt. If I select that, the entire J application closes down. Why
can't I close the .ijx session without quitting the J application?
Which menu option gets me a new .ijx session?
Mike Powell
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