Re: [Rd] Depreciating partial matching

2013-03-21 Thread Peter Meilstrup
vel-boun...@r-project.org] > > On Behalf Of Andreas Leha > > Sent: March-21-13 3:33 PM > > To: r-de...@stat.math.ethz.ch > > Subject: Re: [Rd] Depreciating partial matching > > > > Terry Therneau writes: > > > > > On 03/21/2013 10:00 AM, Simon Urban

Re: [Rd] Depreciating partial matching

2013-03-21 Thread Steven McKinney
> -Original Message- > From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] > On Behalf Of Andreas Leha > Sent: March-21-13 3:33 PM > To: r-de...@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: Re: [Rd] Depreciating partial matching > > Terry Therneau writes:

Re: [Rd] Depreciating partial matching

2013-03-21 Thread Andreas Leha
Terry Therneau writes: > On 03/21/2013 10:00 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote: I would think that the ability to hit the Tab key to trigger name >> completion in your R GUI makes partial matching almost useless. The >> avantage of interactive completion in the GUI is that you immediately

Re: [Rd] Depreciating partial matching

2013-03-21 Thread Ben Bolker
Terry Therneau mayo.edu> writes: > To summarize: my own interactive mix of emacs/R may be unusual. > For pure interactive folks completion does most of the work. I > hadn't tried the newest ESS interactive-within-emacs till today, > it's slick as well. The number of people howling will be less

Re: [Rd] Depreciating partial matching

2013-03-21 Thread Terry Therneau
On 03/21/2013 10:00 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote: I would think that the ability to hit the Tab key to trigger name >> completion in your R GUI makes partial matching almost useless. The >> avantage of interactive completion in the GUI is that you immediately >> see the result of the partial matc

Re: [Rd] Depreciating partial matching

2013-03-21 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Mar 21, 2013, at 10:48 AM, Terry Therneau wrote: > Note: My apolgies for the "Subject" in the original post > > On 03/21/2013 08:59 AM, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: >> Le jeudi 21 mars 2013 à 08:51 -0500, Terry Therneau a écrit : >>> I am not in favor of the change, which is a choice of rigor o

Re: [Rd] Depreciating partial matching

2013-03-21 Thread Terry Therneau
Note: My apolgies for the "Subject" in the original post On 03/21/2013 08:59 AM, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: Le jeudi 21 mars 2013 à 08:51 -0500, Terry Therneau a écrit : I am not in favor of the change, which is a choice of rigor over usability. When I am developing code or functions I agree w