Paul Domaskis <paul.domaskis <at> gmail.com> writes: > Yes, I found the width option in the help pages, but I was wondering > if there was automatic setting of the wrapping according to the > current window width. > > Your function works exactly as I wished. I'll probably get smarter > with time (I hope) but would it be reasonably good practice to stick > this into ~/.Rprofile? I don't suppose there is a way to have it > automatically invoked when the window size/positition changes? > (It's still priceless even without automatic triggering).
Ista Zahn <istazahn <at> gmail.com> writes: > For ESS see > https://github.com/gaborcsardi/dot-emacs/blob/master/.emacs Thanks, Ista....I'm...err....I'm a vim user <<cowers>>.... Peter Crowther <peter.crowther <at> melandra.com> writes: > Possibly, though it would take a little building. If you were to > launch R directly when you start the xterm (loosely xterm R rather > than the default) then R would receive a SIGWINCH signal whenever > the xterm window size changes (xterm automatically sends this to its > child process). R doesn't directly enable handling of the signal, > but there's nothing to stop you loading a dynamic library with a > little C code that set up a handler for SIGWINCH and, when it got > one, ran the equivalent of the stty command to get the new width. > The thing I've not been able to figure out is how the C code would > ever then hand that to R asynchronously. Anyone? MacQueen, Don <macqueen1 <at> llnl.gov> writes: > At this point, and since we are in an X windows context, I think it > might be easier to use the window manager's features and write a > little macro or something that will send my setwid() command to the > active window, then assign it to a simple keystroke. Then: resize > the window; hit the keystroke, and you're done. True, it's not fully > automatic, but it would be pretty quick and easy. > > Either that or give ESS a try, using the bit that Ista offered. Or > maybe Rstudio? > > Peter's got a good start, but I too would be stymied at the last > step; definitely beyond my skill. Peter, Don, Considering that I've been using Matlab, VBA, and Access for the last decade, I think that venturing down this path might take quite some time. I appreciate the ideas, and if I'm ever in the zone with programming under the hood with X-windows (which I use), I'll refer back. Thanks. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
