On Sep 20, 2006, at 10:39 AM, Rob J Goedman wrote: > > It looks like you have the 'Strip comments in history entries' set > in your startup preferences which causes this to happen. Could you > check that? That setting also causes problems if working with > hexadecimal numbers. I find the setting useful if I have many > comment lines in multiline history entries. >
Yup, that was it. I guess we need a slightly smarter comment parser. > > >> Finally, a feature request: A search field for the history. It can >> be hard to find things in the history drawer, especially since multi- >> line entries only show their first line in the drawer, so I am forced >> to save the history and open it in a text editor, or search through >> the main console. And the main point of the history drawer is to not >> have to look through the console window. > > Guess [up arrow] in R Console doesn't work for you? up arrow does work, it's just a problem when I have to go far back through history. What I miss is a terminal-like control-R search back through history feature. _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
