[Rd] minor problems (if problems at all): <ESC> in RGui; finding
some (PR#799)
Prof Brian Ripley
ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
Tue, 2 Jan 2001 15:35:24 +0000 (GMT)
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001 H.RINNER@TIROL.GV.AT wrote:
> [These things don't seem to be of too great importance and may well not meet
> the criteria of a "bug", but, for what it's worth,I thought I'd submit them
> to r-bugs anyway:]
>
> This is the R version:
> > version
> _
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch x86
> os Win32
> system x86, Win32
> status
> major 1
> minor 2.0
> year 2000
> month 12
> day 15
> language R
>
> This is what we noticed:
>
> 1) In RGui, when something is typed in a command line, pressing <ESC> in
> R1.0.0 used to delete the written text and go to a blank new line; in R1.2.0
> the text is not deleted and the user is prompted for new input in the same
> line.
> Of course, this is rather a "cosmetical" issue, but it might be worth
> considering to change this behaviour back to what it used to be in R1.0.0?
Nope, that is deliberate. Use ^U to delete the text, if that is what you
want: Esc was never documented to do so. The problem here is that some
other process (for example a GUI widget) might have written something to
the screen, and you don't want that deleted.
Moral: don't rely on undocumented side effects.
> 2) It looks like if for some functions, their help pages cannot be accessed
> directly via "?" or "help". For example, ?install.packages, or ?setwd, won't
> find the appropriate help page (I am using winhelp, to be specific).
> This might be because e.g. "setwd" shares the same help file with "getwd",
> and it looks like only "getwd" is part of the index of the help system.
> Here, the same holds for R1.0.0.
The critical thing here is that you are using winhelp, and that is
`rough'. It works with all the four other help systems. Can we persuade
you to move into the 21st century and used winhelp's replacement, CHTML?
--
Brian D. Ripley, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
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