built-in editor underlining
Hello Parlamis, a tip regarding syntax highlighting you may (or may not ;-) find useful: I'm using BBEdit 7.1 to edit my R-files. Of course, as a specialized tool, it is far superior compared with R.app's built-in editor (no insult intended). My workflow of editing-sourcing-editing is quite comfortable -- whether you switch to an internal or an external editor window makes no difference. I set the syntax coloring to Tcl, which gives a quite reasonable highlighting of R/S code. And hopefully someone comes up with a special language module in the future. The current version of BBEdit is 8.5, and if you don't need all its refinements, you can use their free TextWrangler, which has pretty much the same basic functionality. Hope that helps (not sure, though :-) J?rg
On Sep 17, 2006, at 9:05 PM, Parlamis Franklin wrote:
Thanks, Simon. Of course I don't think you should do anything that
would prohibit sourcing the file (and I guess most would agree).
Re: syntax coloring. I've turned it off because, when editing the
beginning of a long file, I would get a long delay (multiple seconds)
after I entered an open quotes (") as the rest of the document
changed color because all quotes were now matched differently. Not
sure whether this is a slow implementation of that functionality, or
what is to done about it, but for this user at least, the delay issue
outweighs any benefit that I could get from syntax coloring.
Franklin
On Sep 16, 2006, at 4:52 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:
The build-in editor doesn't store any text attribute changes as the output is plain text. It does, however, allow text attribute changes, because they are used e.g. for syntax highlighting. Strictly speaking the bug is that you can use the <Cmd><U> command at all. Another approach would be to enhance the editor to support RTF format (internally it actually does allow it) which would allow you to use formatted text and store it. The drawback is that such a text is no longer executable directly in R, so you couldn't "source" it. I not quite sure what is more useful - I'm almost inclined to think that banning text format changes makes more sense, but I'm open to other suggestions... Cheers, Simon On Sep 15, 2006, at 8:53 PM, Parlamis Franklin wrote:
if i open a blank document in the built-in editor and enter the following text: Help Help and then underline the first "Help" (by highlighting it, and using either Meta-U or Format>Font>Underline), the underlining will show up in my current session. but if i save the document and reopen it, the underlining will be gone. what is more, if i then open the document in another text editor (try TextEdit), highlight the first help and try to underline it, everything in the document will be underlined, including the second "Help" i've been using 2.4.0 alpha (about a week old) and the R.app deployment build (Version 1.17-pre (3779)) for R 2.4.x from http:// cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/ franklin parlamis
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