this is a suggestion for a feature in future releases of RAqua for mac OS X: It would be very nice if the gui conformed to the navigation keys that most other os x apps do (with the exception of ms word and mozilla). i am referring to the use of ctrl- f, b, n, p, e, and a for navigating forward one character, backwards one character, up one line, down one line, to the end of a line, and to the beginning of a line, respectively. also, ctrl-d to delete forward would be convenient. these work in the command-line version from terminal because they work with everything in terminal. this is not major, of course, but it would be nice and would go a long way to make RAqua feel more native to os x. thanks, peter
RAqua line-editor navigation keys
2 messages · Peter McMahan, Douglas Bates
Peter McMahan <peter_mcmahan@yahoo.com> writes:
this is a suggestion for a feature in future releases of RAqua for mac OS X: It would be very nice if the gui conformed to the navigation keys that most other os x apps do (with the exception of ms word and mozilla). i am referring to the use of ctrl- f, b, n, p, e, and a for navigating forward one character, backwards one character, up one line, down one line, to the end of a line, and to the beginning of a line, respectively. also, ctrl-d to delete forward would be convenient.
I believe these started as the emacs (and later readline) keybindings.
these work in the command-line version from terminal because they work with everything in terminal.
I imagine they work in R under a terminal because of inclusion of the readline library, not because "they work with everything".
this is not major, of course, but it would be nice and would go a long way to make RAqua feel more native to os x.
Alternatively, you could use the ESS package with emacs or xemacs under OS X (but I can understand if emacs doesn't seem very Macintosh-like :-). Anyone who has attended presentations by both Steve Jobs and Richard Stallman would have difficulty imagining the two of them finding common ground.
Douglas Bates bates@stat.wisc.edu Statistics Department 608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madison http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/