On Wednesday 01 June 2011, Simon Urbanek wrote:
> This is a whole different story. So far I have been talking about embedding
> GUIs which use Read/WriteConsole and that is also what the original
> question was about. Obviously you can add toolkit packages, but I don't
> consider those GUIs in the
On Jun 1, 2011, at 1:50 PM, Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 June 2011, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>> I suppose, yes, it's possible, but I see somewhat of an asymmetry if done
>> that way : GUIs are like plug-ins in that there is a set of functions they
>> have to implement to work prope
On Wednesday 01 June 2011, Simon Urbanek wrote:
> I suppose, yes, it's possible, but I see somewhat of an asymmetry if done
> that way : GUIs are like plug-ins in that there is a set of functions they
> have to implement to work properly. In the current state this is done
> using the C-level hooks,
On May 31, 2011, at 5:23 PM, Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 May 2011, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>> The history entries are somewhat in a grey area, because most GUIs use
>> their own implementation of history (and thus they are irrelevant) and the
>> *history() commands are documented t
On Tuesday 31 May 2011, Simon Urbanek wrote:
> The history entries are somewhat in a grey area, because most GUIs use
> their own implementation of history (and thus they are irrelevant) and the
> *history() commands are documented to only use readline-backend. That
> said, they could be easily use
On May 31, 2011, at 4:11 PM, Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 May 2011, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>> I would expect so, but I'll let Luke comment on it. It is definitely a very
>> bad idea.
>>
>> R provides facilities for customization and other GUIs are using them
>> properly. If you are
