Yeah, that's better. Having that would save me a lot of typing when there's a surprise.
Henry Rich > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger Hui > Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 5:17 PM > To: Programming forum > Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Difference between 5^100x and x: 5^100 > > Rather than tacking more stuff onto the session output > window, perhaps there could be a "information on the > last result" window. It would display things like: > > - noun/verb/adverb/conjunction > - if noun, > - the internal type > - rank > - shape > - # elements (*/shape) > - ": representation as well as linear, boxed, etc. > - number of bytes > etc. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sherlock, Ric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Monday, October 6, 2008 13:50 > Subject: RE: [Jprogramming] Difference between 5^100x and x: 5^100 > To: Programming forum <[email protected]> > > > ---Raul Miller wrote: > > > It would be interesting if the session manager code which > > > colorizes text within the session were itself written in J. > > > > > > However, since this expression apparently colorizes every > > > displayed line and updates the display every time a > > > character is typed, there might be efficiency constraints. > > > > > > 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. > > > > Thanks for investigating this idea further, I don't really have > > an idea of how easy it would be to implement such a scheme, > > which is why I asked if it would be possible in an earlier post > > in this thread. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
