That is a more accurate statement regarding Ctrl-K. Nonetheless whatever is killed can be yanked back via Ctrl-Y, so the effect emulates cutting and pasting. I am also a vi user, but these four basic emacs bindings seem to perennially haunt numerous terminal apps.
••••• Brian Lee Yung Rowe 917 496 4583 On Jul 5, 2013, at 3:53 PM, William Dunlap <wdun...@tibco.com> wrote: > Ctrl-K is delete from here to end of line on Linux-comand-line and > Windows-GUI R. > (My fingers are not nimble enough for emacs, I'll stick with vi.) > > Bill Dunlap > Spotfire, TIBCO Software > wdunlap tibco.com > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Brian Lee Yung Rowe [mailto:r...@muxspace.com] >> Sent: Friday, July 05, 2013 12:11 PM >> To: William Dunlap >> Cc: peter dalgaard; R-devel; Barry Rowlingson >> Subject: Re: [Rd] should the text for RIGHT_ASSIGN be -> in getParseData()? >> >> Here are two more standard emacs bindings that work: Ctrl-K to cut and >> Ctrl-Y to paste. >> >> ••••• >> Brian Lee Yung Rowe >> 917 496 4583 >> >> >> On Jul 5, 2013, at 2:32 PM, William Dunlap <wdun...@tibco.com> wrote: >> >>>> But up-arrow, ctrl-A then "z <-" is not much less convenient, is it? >>> >>> I didn't know that ctrl-A would bring me to the start of the line, nor >>> that ctrl-E would bring me to the end. Thanks. >>> >>> Bill Dunlap >>> Spotfire, TIBCO Software >>> wdunlap tibco.com >>> >>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: peter dalgaard [mailto:pda...@gmail.com] >>>> Sent: Friday, July 05, 2013 11:25 AM >>>> To: William Dunlap >>>> Cc: Barry Rowlingson; R-devel >>>> Subject: Re: [Rd] should the text for RIGHT_ASSIGN be -> in getParseData()? >>>> >>>> >>>> On Jul 5, 2013, at 18:59 , William Dunlap wrote: >>>> >>>>>> Is there any reason right-assign with "->" still exists? How much >>>>>> code on CRAN uses it, and how trivially could it be excised? >>>>> >>>>> I use '->' a lot when doing interactive work. I often first run a command >>>>> to see its printed output then decide that I had better save its value. >>>>> The up-arrow key gives me the previous command line with the cursor >>>>> placed at the >>>>> end of the line so adding '-> z' at the end of the line is convenient. >>>>> (Not using the up-arrow key and doing 'z <- .Last.value' also works, but >>>>> I don't like its context sensitivity.) >>>> >>>> But up-arrow, ctrl-A then "z <-" is not much less convenient, is it? >>>> >>>> I have used in with multi-line input, occasionally, though. As in >>>> >>>> replicate(10000, { >>>> ysim <- rbinom(length(p), n, p) >>>> glm(cbind(ysim, n - ysim) ~ x, binomial)$deviance >>>> }) >>>> >>>> ... and then you realize that you probably don't want to look at 10000 >>>> simulated >>>> deviances and add "-> simDev". >>>> >>>>> >>>>> I never use '->' when writing code in a file, so you would have to search >>>>> my .Rhistory files, not my *.R files, for evidence of its usefulness to >>>>> me. >>>>> >>>>> Bill Dunlap >>>>> Spotfire, TIBCO Software >>>>> wdunlap tibco.com >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>>> From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org >>>>>> [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On >>>> Behalf >>>>>> Of Barry Rowlingson >>>>>> Sent: Friday, July 05, 2013 9:29 AM >>>>>> To: Duncan Murdoch >>>>>> Cc: R-devel >>>>>> Subject: Re: [Rd] should the text for RIGHT_ASSIGN be -> in >>>>>> getParseData()? >>>>>> >>>>>> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Duncan Murdoch >>>>>> <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> R itself doesn't make use of the text column, it's for display of code >>>>>>> by highlighters etc. So if anyone does assume text is a function name, >>>>>>> it's their bug, not ours. In fact, the bug is already there, because >>>>>>> there is actually one other example which was being parsed properly, >>>>>>> "**" is translated to "^". There's no `**` function, but 2**3 works. >>>>>> >>>>>> Is there any reason right-assign with "->" still exists? How much >>>>>> code on CRAN uses it, and how trivially could it be excised? Can we >>>>>> also have 'up assign' and "down assign" so I can do: >>>>>> >>>>>>> 3 >>>>>>> x -^ >>>>>>> x -v >>>>>>> 4 >>>>>> >>>>>> - they make just as much sense. >>>>>> >>>>>> Okay, lets see all the edge cases..... >>>>>> >>>>>> Barry >>>>>> >>>>>> ______________________________________________ >>>>>> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>>>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >>>>> >>>>> ______________________________________________ >>>>> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Peter Dalgaard, Professor, >>>> Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School >>>> Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark >>>> Phone: (+45)38153501 >>>> Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
