[Rd] path autocompletion in 2.5.0

[Ernest Turro]

Apologies for missing that in NEWS.

Apart  for auto-completion breaking for paths with '-', this sounds  
very convenient.

E

On 26 Apr 2007, at 17:30, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> Did you actually look at the NEWS file?
>
>     o	The Unix-alike readline terminal interface now does
> 	command-completion for R objects, incorporating the
> 	functionality formerly in package 'rcompletion' by Deepayan
> 	Sarkar.  This can be disabled by setting the environment
> 	variable R_COMPLETION=FALSE when starting R (e.g. in
> 	~/.Renviron).  (Note that when this is enabled, filename
> 	completion no longer works for file paths containing R
> 	operators such as '+' and '-'.)
>
> What 'properly' means is of course a matter of taste, but I am very  
> surprised that you posted such a comment about something  
> highlighted under USER-VISIBLE CHANGES as a configurable option.
>
> R-devel has an option to fine-tune this behaviour.
>
>
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Ernest Turro wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> R 2.5.0 isn't auto-completing paths properly as it used to. E.g.
>> suppose I have:
>>
>> > dir("CEL/choe")
>> [1] "chipC-rep1.CEL" "chipC-rep2.CEL" "chipC-rep3.CEL" "chipS- 
>> rep1.CEL"
>> [5] "chipS-rep2.CEL" "chipS-rep3.CEL"
>>
>> Now if I do:
>>
>> ReadAffy("CEL/choe/ch<tab> # => ReadAffy("CEL/choe/chip
>> ReadAffy("CEL/choe/chipC<tab> # => ReadAffy("CEL/choe/chipC-rep
>> ReadAffy("CEL/choe/chipC-rep1<tab> # Nothing happens.
>>
>> in 2.4.1 that final line auto-completes properly to:
>>
>> ReadAffy("CEL/choe/chipC-rep1.CEL"
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Ernest
>>
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