unix-type commandline keystrokes in the windows RGUI
On Sep 17, 2008, at 9:26 AM, mfrumin wrote:
Hi all, I am generally quite fond of the unix commandline keystrokes (e.g. searching back in your history with [CTRL]-R, and cutting/pasting with [CTRL]- K/Y) which work in the R commandline in *nix. Does anyone know if there's any way to get similar functionality in the Windows RGUI? I know that as of now, [CTRL]-A and -E do the same as unix (beginning and end of line) and [CTRL]-Y does a paste, but [CTRL]-K crops from the cursor to the end of the line but doesn't put the text into the clipboard. the most important thing I want is the [CTRL]-R functionality which is so poorly approximated by pressing the up arrow a million times. I've searched on the archives and didn't find anything about this. Any thoughts?
My memory from using RGUI in Windows is that <up-arrow> provided that functionality. I do not remember needing to do any special set-up to get that behavior. It is mentioned on p2 of <http://www.wcsmalaysia.org/stats/PDF/Starting_R.pdf> .... so I think my memory is still working.
David Winsemius Heritage Laboratories