GUI bracket-matching and window positioning

1. I'm curious what determines where new editor and quartz windows are positioned. Usually editor windows appear in the middle of my screen, and successive windows in the session shift down and to the right. My impression is that the last window position is remembered between sessions. Is there a way to reset the position of the initial window?

2. Quartz windows always open bottom left on my screen, irrespective of the preference setting. I've mentioned this before, but the behaviour has not changed. Am I altering the preference setting incorrectly, or is it broken?

3. I'm much enjoying the new gui editor. I've noticed that the following arcane bit of code defeats the bracket balancer, because some of the brackets are quoted and others aren't. Note that all the quote characters are single quotes.

   b <- 'b+c'
   paste('(a', ifelse(!is.null(b), paste('-(', b, '))', sep=''), ')'), sep='')

Hi Tim,

thanks for the report.

On 14 Jul 2011, at 17:30, Tim Cole wrote:

1. I'm curious what determines where new editor and quartz windows are positioned. Usually editor windows appear in the middle of my screen, and successive windows in the session shift down and to the right. My impression is that the last window position is remembered between sessions. Is there a way to reset the position of the initial window?

For R Script Editor windows we're using Cocoa's default setting of remembering the last opened window position. It's not ideal but we're working on a better solution including the chance to ignore remembering the last position.

2. Quartz windows always open bottom left on my screen, irrespective of the preference setting. I've mentioned this before, but the behaviour has not changed. Am I altering the preference setting incorrectly, or is it broken?

Unfortunately it seems that this setting is broken. We're trying to fix it.

3. I'm much enjoying the new gui editor. I've noticed that the following arcane bit of code defeats the bracket balancer, because some of the brackets are quoted and others aren't. Note that all the quote characters are single quotes.

  b <- 'b+c'
  paste('(a', ifelse(!is.null(b), paste('-(', b, '))', sep=''), ')'), sep='')

This was fixed in revision 5879 :)


Kind regards,
--Hans

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hi Hans,

Prompted by a "tim" posting (cole not me) email on the list, I thought I'd send in my wish list even though it's not christmas :-) Thanks for the massive improvements you've made already - they save me around 1hr a day, I think! Hope other people are discovering them: Maybe R could have a "tip of the day" bubble, like TextMate :-)

1. Package Manager
a. Allow sort by "loaded"
b. A grep filter would be amazing!

2. Workspace Browser
a. Allow sort by structure (by kb/product of dimensions..?)
b. Allow selection of multiple items
 1. cmd-shift down extends selection
 2. cmd-click extends selection
c. Broom: allow the follow delete behaviors
 1. cmd-click on broom deletes without confirmation
 2. delete key = delete with confirmation
 3. cmd-delete = delete without confirmation

3. Preferences: Quartz
a. Bind ?tab? key to  move focus from height->width->pixels fields


Best wishes,
tim bates