---Chris Burke wrote: > Raul Miller wrote: > > Also, the current mechanism seems to be based solely on > > characteristics of the raw text. For example, if you > > configure your system such that adverbs display in green, > > and type example=:/ then the word 'example' will not be > > displayed in green. So this proposed change would be a > > major departure from how the session manager currently > > works. > > This would certainly be a major departure. Right now, > "example" would be colored as a name, not as a type. Another > problem is that the J session windows are simply plain text, > and nothing else. For example, the windows do not know that > some block of text just happens to be the representation of > a numeric matrix. Also, since the windows can be > edited at will, that block of text might be changed so that > it could no longer represent a numeric matrix.
Given that providing colour clues to things like rank and precision looks to be non-trivial, the idea that looks most useful and least intrusive to me is Roger's suggestion of a separate "information on the last result" window. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
