That's probably because NSTextView behaves more like Classic MacOS
where \r was the newline character rather than \n or \r\n. I'm not
sure there's a straightforward way of changing that behavior without
some pretty big changes to NSTextView.
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 5:46 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I discovered empirically that cat("\r") in the R.app console emits a
> newline: is that intentional? It is the only way of running R I have
> found for which that is true. (The R Windows GUI and all terminals, even
> on Mac OS, just move to the beginning of the line.)
>
> The reason for testing was txtProgressBar() in pre-2.7.0, which expects \r
> to do a carriage return, only (as documented in ?Quotes). I could change
> this to use backspaces (less reliably), but it would seem better to make
> the console consistent with the documentation and e.g. Terminal.
>
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