In Aquamacs, I most often use C-c C-n; this submits a line and step to next. I like it because I can keep my left pinkie finger on the Crtl key to execute it. (I am not much of a typist). Hank On Mar 5, 2008, at 4:44 AM, Tim Cole wrote:
> I can see the benefit of single stepping in some cases, but I > wouldn't want to lose the current behaviour. > > Whiile on the subject, cmd-return has an odd feature. Once a line has > been submitted using cmd-return, it needs two returns not one to move > from the end of the line to the next. I suspect this is not intended > - can it be changed? > > Thanks, > Tim > > 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. > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone +44(0)20 7905 2666 Fax +44(0)20 7905 2381 > Paed. Epid. & Biostats, UCL Institute of Child Health, London WC1N > 1EH, UK > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac Dr. Hank Stevens, Assistant Professor 338 Pearson Hall Botany Department Miami University Oxford, OH 45056 Office: (513) 529-4206 Lab: (513) 529-4262 FAX: (513) 529-4243 http://www.cas.muohio.edu/~stevenmh/ http://www.cas.muohio.edu/ecology http://www.muohio.edu/botany/ "If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore." -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882) _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
