[R-SIG-Mac] tab key in R

[Thomas Lumley]

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Paul Rathouz wrote:

>
> I am a new mac user and a new R user (but I have used S and Splus in unix
> environments for a long time).  I have installed R and in general it seems
> to be working fine.  Here is a problem that I am hoping someone can help
> me with:
>
> In an R session, hitting the TAB key twice produces a list of files in
> the current directory. This is apparently some type of tab completion
> behavior from my shell (but the behavior does not happen in the parent
> shell).  Any idea on how to stop this?  It causes problems when reading in
> code from others who use TABs to format.
>

Starting R with --no-readline will stop it (but will also disable
command-line editing).

	-thomas

Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle