[R] select text using only the keyboard

[Simon Fear]

I have a different wish: I want to be able to mouseclick in
the middle of a line to get the cursor there (as in SPlus).

While I appreciate that to get my wish I should just write
a little patch, I estimate it would take me about 2 years 
to reach the point where I was capable of it, assuming I 
did nothing else, and I would certainly have to understand 
Windows, which in previous brushes I have found to be 
very bad for the brain.

I can live without it.

Paul - in the meantime you might type savehistory() and then 
edit .Rhistory in your favourite keyboard-friendly editor.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]
> Sent: 21 October 2003 07:51
> To: Paul Livingstone
> Cc: R-Help
> Subject: Re: [R] select text using only the keyboard
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> On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Paul Livingstone wrote:
> 
> > I am using R 1.6.1 on Windows.  I usually write/edit code in the R
> console,
> > and when I get it working right, copy and paste it to a 
> text file for
> later
> > use.  In Splus for Windows, this could be done easily using just the
> > keyboard, with up-arrow, shift-end or shift-home, ctrl-c, etc.  
> > 
> > But in R, the shift key doesn't select text.  The only way I can
> select text
> > in R is with the mouse.  Does anyone know how to select text in R
> using only
> > the keyboard?
> 
> No.
> 
> If you think this would be a useful contribution, please send a patch 
> against the current R sources (1.9.0-to-be, not 1.6.1).
> 
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