[R-SIG-Mac] Cocoa GUI feature request (with patch!)

[jtnews1 at biomserv.univ-lyon1.fr]

Pressing CMD+1 does not change the fact that, when you click in the
console window, the insertion point is moved to the line where the
click occured. This makes it impossible to type new commands, unless
you click on the last input line, which is not easy, or type a carriage
return, which means that the command you just typed before this carriage
return is lost.

Why is the insertion point moved when a click occurs in the console
window ? I think it should stay at the prompt just after the last
output, like when using the terminal. Any keystroke should be echoed
on the last line, and not "eaten" by the console.

Jean

On Oct 21, 2004, at 9:00 AM, stefano iacus wrote:

>I'll have a look, but you can just press CMD+1 to activate the keyb.
>
>stefano
>
>On Oct 21, 2004, at 9:00 AM, Byron Ellis wrote:
>
>>First off, many many thanks to Stefano and Simon for their hard 
>>work making OS X a first-class R citizen. Great work guys!
>>
>>Second, I'm a lazy sort of guy (you may have noticed...) and I tend 
>>to click at random on the R Console to activate it, which has the 
>>unfortunate effect of moving the insertion point, rendering the 
>>keyboard more-or-less useless. My solution, in the attached patch, 
>>makes a small change to the RController that inserts the text at 
>>the end of the console buffer and moves the insertion point to the 
>>end when text is entered within the committed text region.
>>
>>


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