Peter McMahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > this is a suggestion for a feature in future releases > of RAqua for mac OS X: > It would be very nice if the gui conformed to the > navigation keys that most other os x apps do (with the > exception of ms word and mozilla). i am referring to > the use of ctrl- f, b, n, p, e, and a for navigating > forward one character, backwards one character, up one > line, down one line, to the end of a line, and to the > beginning of a line, respectively. also, ctrl-d to > delete forward would be convenient.
I believe these started as the emacs (and later readline) keybindings. > these work in the command-line version from terminal > because they work with everything in terminal. I imagine they work in R under a terminal because of inclusion of the readline library, not because "they work with everything". > this is not major, of course, but it would be nice and would go a > long way to make RAqua feel more native to os x. Alternatively, you could use the ESS package with emacs or xemacs under OS X (but I can understand if emacs doesn't seem very Macintosh-like :-). Anyone who has attended presentations by both Steve Jobs and Richard Stallman would have difficulty imagining the two of them finding common ground. -- Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department 608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madison http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/ ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
