Command line completion, Help browser navigation buttons, Offering code changes for GUI

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.

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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.

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.

to write to the GUI console correctly.  Is this potentially 
interesting
enough that one of the developers might like to do it?