On 09/08/11 15:29, Michael Lachmann wrote:
Thanks for the reply!
On 9 Aug 2011, at 1:58PM, Sam Liddicott wrote:
The R menu should be in your preferences.
You mean, in the personal init file?
So I should direct users how to add an R menu by editing their init files?
Another option is that in the menu that opens from the little monitor icon,
where you can select the R session, a whole submenu would be inserted. I don't
know if it is currently possible, or how hard that would be...
I don't know either.
The shortcuts could potentally be global, but I don't understand them.
I don't know why you need "R1." and "R2." ...what will the shortcut "R2." do if
you already have 2 R sessions?
R1. and R2. open two sessions. If, for example, you have a remote session on
R1., then you can start a local one with R2.
Or, if session R1 is in a long calculation, and you just quickly want to try
something. Or, if you open a second document, but don't want to mix the
calculation between the two documents.
An alternative is to have a separate session for each document. This means that
you can't easily share values between documents. The main times I use this is
when I clean up a document, or sum it up - then I open a second, cleaned
document.
Sharing of sessions between documents scares me. I think because I don't
want to clean up a document. For this reason I generally avoid using
shell sessions - but a shell is probably much more stateful than an R
session.
Sam
Michael
Sam
On 05/08/11 14:36, Michael Lachmann wrote:
Hi!
I want to update the TeXmacs R interface to my latest version. (even with some
limited syntax highlighting...)
But I have the following problem:
I work a lot with this interface, so I added shortcuts to insert a new session.
"R1." inserts the default R session (no alt, clt, esc or anything!)
"R2." inserts a second new session
"R3." a third
"RR." asks the user for a remote host, and starts a session there - this is
started as the default session, so R1. will insert sessions to that remote R.
Now the question is this: what should I do with these shortcuts - they make it
much nicer to work with R, but they are called from outside the R session
(because you want to insert a session), and possibly before any R session is in
the document (you want to start a new session).
In particular, RR., which starts a remote session starts before any session is
inserted, and there currently is no menu to do that.
So:
Should these be global shortcuts?
Should there be a global R menu, before any R session is started?
Should this just be use preferences, so I'll have them in my personal init, but
no one else?
Should they still be activated only when you select to insert an R session? So,
you'll have to insert one session, and then you have shortcuts? And with remote
session I'll have to think what to do?
What do you think?
Michael
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