[R-gui] Tinn-R beta test

[Philippe Grosjean]

> Hi.  I just installed that version; it looks good.  I 
> couldn't see what the gutter was for, though.  In Delphi 
> that's where debug breakpoints are set; do you use it for anything?

It is used to display bookmarks (set them with Ctrl+Shift+[0-9], navigate to
them with Ctrl+[0-9]).

> One thing I've often thought it could be used for is to mark 
> a section of the file to be the default submission.  As I'm 
> editing a function or a section of a script,  I may want to 
> resubmit it several times; it's inconvenient to use 
> highlighting for this, because the highlighting is used in editing.

... Or may be a 'submit the whole function' tool would do the job. Excellent
idea!

Best,

Philippe 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch at stats.uwo.ca] 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 11:57 AM
> To: Philippe Grosjean
> Cc: r-sig-gui at stat.math.ethz.ch; "'José Cláudio Faria'"
> Subject: Re: [R-gui] Tinn-R beta test
> 
> On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 11:23:31 +0100, "Philippe Grosjean"
> <phgrosjean at sciviews.org> wrote:
> 
> >Hello,
> >
> >We have now decided to freeze the latest Tinn-R version 
> (0.0.9.0 r1.13, 
> >see
> >http://www.sciviews.org/Tinn-R) and to proceed with a wider 
> beta test. 
> >We would like to end up with a very stable R code editor 
> (under Windows 
> >WIN98/2000/XP, sorry for the other platforms) by the end of 
> the year. 
> >So, this is a call among "R-SIG-GUI-GUYS":
> >
> >we need beta testers for Tinn-R!
> >
> >We do not request only "negative" reports (i.e., bugs reports), but 
> >also "positive" reports (i.e., information about successful 
> installs and testes).
> >Thanks.
> >Best,
> >
> >The Tinn-R developers (José Claudio Faria & Philippe Grosjean). 
> 
> Hi.  I just installed that version; it looks good.  I 
> couldn't see what the gutter was for, though.  In Delphi 
> that's where debug breakpoints are set; do you use it for anything?
> 
> One thing I've often thought it could be used for is to mark 
> a section of the file to be the default submission.  As I'm 
> editing a function or a section of a script,  I may want to 
> resubmit it several times; it's inconvenient to use 
> highlighting for this, because the highlighting is used in editing.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
>