Some similar sort of functionality would be great - I have used both, and found it was a logical sort of approach.
cheers Ben On 05/03/2008, at 5:03 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 3/4/2008 2:31 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote: >> Rune, >> >> On Mar 4, 2008, at 1:12 PM, Rune Maagensen wrote: >> >>> I've just started using R 2.62 on OSX 10.4.11 on a macbook 2,1 and >>> found that in the Editor on Windows ctrl-R runs the current line and >>> goes to the next line. On Mac cmd-return runs the current line and >>> stays there. Shouldn't the cursor go to the next line, so a program >>> can be run stepwise with multiple cmd-rtn instead of cmd-rtn down- >>> arrow? >>> >> >> It was not designed to do so, but clearly it could be changed, I'm >> not sure it's good idea, though, as it combines an action (execute a >> line) with a change of selection and that is usually not desirable (I >> know that WIndows is known to breach UI design principles all over >> the >> place, but that's another story). Most commonly one uses selection to >> select the program/function that will be run instead and you don't >> want to change the position there. Any comments on this from other >> users? > > In Windows the mental image is that there are two functions attached > to > Ctrl-R: > > - if something is selected, then submit it. > - if not, then single step through the script. > > The second function is what Rune is asking about. I'd say it's good > to > have a "single step" function on a key. It doesn't need to be the > same > key as "submit the selection", but it doesn't seem to lead to > confusion > if it is. > > On a Mac in the Xcode debugger, what's the key for single stepping? > (My > Mac is at home, I can't check.) It would make a lot of sense to use > that key for single stepping in the script editor too. > > Duncan Murdoch > >> >> >>> Is there a search option in the web archive? I couldn't find it. >> >> http://search.gmane.org/form.php? >> group=gmane.comp.lang.r.mac&sort=date >> >> Cheers, >> Simon >> >> _______________________________________________ >> R-SIG-Mac mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
