As an inveterate user of vi, I was pleased to stumble on how to use it for editing R commands.
When an interactive R session is launched under unix, the command line editor most likely defaults to emacs. Typing <esc>,<ctrl>+j will switch this to vi editing mode (see below for possible exceptions). excerpted from readline(3) manpage: vi-editing-mode (M-C-j) When in emacs editing mode, this causes a switch to vi editing mode. emacs-editing-mode (C-e) When in vi editing mode, this causes a switch to emacs editing mode. An emacs-style notation is used to denote keystrokes. Control keys are denoted by C-key, e.g.,C-n means Control- N. Similarly, meta keys are denoted by M-key, so M-x means Meta-X. (On keyboards without a meta key, M-x means ESC x, i.e., press the Escape key then the x key. This makes ESC the meta prefix. The combination M-C-x means ESC-Control-x, or press the Escape key then hold the Control key while pressing the x key.) see also: An Introduction to R Appendix C: The command-line editor. http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.html#The% 20command-line%20editor Steve Dutky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
