Command line completion, Help browser navigation buttons, Offering code changes for GUI
For the completion, you can just run things through complete: to get a drop down of completion objects (after overriding the source methods). Unfortunately, that might be Panther-only---I can't recall off hand.
On Jan 31, 2005, at 12:13 PM, Gregory Jefferis wrote:
Dear Stefano, Simon et al., A couple of features which I find are missing from the excellent new Cocoa GUI are Back/Forwards navigation in the help browser (acknowledged in the To Do list) and command completion of subvariables (eg the columns of a dataframe so that you can complete df$T to df$Temperature). I have implemented these changes in my own source tree (derived from the Nov-16 snapshot) and wondered whether it would be possible to get them integrated into the main source. I had a few additional queries about command completion (which is one of the features that means I have almost stopped using terminal R/X11). It seems to me that these days object names are allowed to have underscores but the command completion only allows numbers letters and periods. Additionally I think it would be very useful if tab completion would display completion options if there are >1 but < say 50. I have something working for this but it is not quite right yet and it will take me a bit longer to figure out how to write to the GUI console correctly. Is this potentially interesting enough that one of the developers might like to do it? Many thanks, Greg Jefferis. -- Gregory Jefferis, PhD and: Research Fellow Department of Zoology St John's College Downing Street Cambridge Cambridge, CB2 3EJ CB2 1TP Tel: +44 (0)1223 336683 +44 (0)1223 339899 Fax: +44 (0)1223 336676 +44 (0)1223 337720 gsxej2@cam.ac.uk
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