Re: [Rd] Q: Windows/readline: missing history search

2017-04-18 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Your error is in your subject line: getline rather than readline is used on Windows. (readline was not written for Windows and depends on a 'curses' library not available for Windows terminals let alone RGui. A considerable amount of time was spent trying to use it, unsuccessfully.) On 13/0

[Rd] Q: Windows/readline: missing history search

2017-04-13 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hello! Ever since I used R on Windows (RGui) I am missing the ability to search the command history (Cntrl+R (reverse-search-history) in BASH, for example). Is there a particular reason for having this function disabled? Another feature would be word-wise delete (kill-word, backward-kill-word).