[R] Best R text editors?

[Patrick Connolly]

On Fri, 11-Sep-2009 at 06:12AM +0200, Johannes Huesing wrote:

|> Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> [Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 09:17:42AM CEST]:
|> > >>>>> "PaCo" == p connolly <p_connolly at slingshot.co.nz>
|> > >>>>>     on Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:19:31 +1200 writes:
|> > 
|> >     PaCo> On Mon, 31-Aug-2009 at 08:25PM +1000, Jim Lemon wrote:
|> >     PaCo> [...]
|> [...]
|> >     PaCo> |> Emacs still
|> >     PaCo> |> has that annoying trait of being determinedly incompatible with anything
|> >     PaCo> |> else, even if the conventions are quite sensible. 
|> 
|> A lot of the keystrokes are the same as when you are using the bash.
|> 
|> [...]
|> > 
|> > well, actually, since Emacs 23, in its 'Options' Menu there's
|> > now a check-box entry 
|> > 
|> >     " C-x/C-c/C-v Cut and Paste (CUA) "
|> > 
|> > ((which still is "off" by default ;-))
|> 
|> and in previous versions, you could always do M-x cua-mode for
|> the same effect. Talk about a well-hidden function mostly directed
|> at beginners ...

Perhaps the thinking was that by the time they find it, they'll
already have noticed that they can cut/copy and paste using only the
mouse buttons and won't be bothered with such inefficient methods.

Though this be madness, yet there is a method in't. :-)


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