Thanks, Larry - it's weird because I hadn't really noticed a problem until yesterday.
All the history I ever wanted was there, the performance was fine, nothing got my attention. It was only after re-instating my KeyMaps that I had a problem. I always used to display a list of the special keys at the R:> as I went to that option. All I did was try to add 4 lines of display to the 2 that I have been displaying (current directory and database then the R:Base version). I tried adding blank lines, I tried writing the 6 lines to a file and TYPEing the file, I tried copying and pasting each command line to the R:>, I traced the RMD file - all I could get was the last four lines. I think it was only desperation that made me look at the settings for the R:> because I could only remember that you could change the colours and the position of the prompt. I could easily have seen the buffer setting at 5 and not had any reason to try to find out what it should be. I changed it to 10 not having the slightest idea what it might do and ready to change it back if that change made everything worse. I think what I'm getting around to is that it would be nice if the help gave the default values for things of this type. Generally, I hope that I know what most of these things will do when changed but I have twenty-something years of experience using R:Base. Had I been a much newer user or an inexperienced computer user I would probably not have thought that the value of 5 was worth changing. Then to see the value on the image in the help at 10,000 just seemed so different from my value. I suppose it might be safe to assume that the values shown in the help images are the defaults in which case perhaps the opening screen could indicate that in some way. So far, I've not been able to find anything that confirms it either way. Regards, Alastair. ----- Original Message ----- From: Lawrence Lustig To: RBASE-L Mailing List Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2008 2:21 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: R:> DEFAULTS << Then I looked at the help to find out what the Buffer Size setting did. I didn't really understand the explanation but the image shows a value of 10,000 - rather different from 5 or 10! >> The buffer controls how many lines of history in the output section of the R> console are kept. Too many and you'll find that output to the R> console slows down a lot. Experiment and see what works for you, and how far back you feel you want to go. -- Larry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.16/1445 - Release Date: 15/05/2008 19:25
