[ESS] 2 things I wish ESS would do

[A.J. Rossini]

(only answering one of Tyler's questions)

On 5/6/08, tyler <tyler.smith at mail.mcgill.ca> wrote:
> David Whiting <david.whiting at ncl.ac.uk> writes:

> Is there a good reason to keep the ess-transcript functions and
> inferior-ess-prompt hidden from ESS[S] mode? Appropriate helper
> functions would be easy to cook up if the these items were available. I
> imagine a single command to collect the current region in the process
> buffer, prompt for the destination buffer, possibly with a default, and
> then paste and clean the kill-ring at point in the destination buffer.

To answer your question:  there are reasons, "goodness" being in the
eye of the beholder.

Originally (1994-1996 era), we (at least I) wanted to ensure
workflow/process restrictions on what you could do in a particular
mode, to simplify training.

That has proven to be rather old fashioned and restrictive, as new
workflows/processes for doing statistical activities are
created/desired, as more and more people use this tool.

So refactoring those functions into a general support location would
be a great idea, for reuse by the various modes.

best,
-tony

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