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

[stefano iacus]

On Oct 21, 2004, at 9:11 PM, Byron Ellis wrote:

> Of course---I had just placed ESS into the category of First (and Most 
> Venerable) of the Unbundled GUIs as opposed to "command-line R." The 
> rest of us will be playing catch-up with ESS for long time :-)
>
> FWIW the code suggests that Cocoa R's console also attempts to 
> complete both filenames and objects. (I haven't actually tried it).
>
it does in fact
stefano

>
> On Oct 21, 2004, at 6:15 AM, A.J. Rossini wrote:
>
>> More importantly, it (ESS) can work for both filenames and R object 
>> names.
>>
>> best,
>> -tony
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:19:04 +0200, Martin Maechler
>> <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
>>>>>>>> "Byron" == Byron Ellis <bellis at hsph.harvard.edu>
>>>>>>>>     on Thu, 21 Oct 2004 01:25:37 -0700 writes:
>>>
>>>    Byron> <...........>
>>>
>>>    Byron> I'm not certain how it interacts with the history 
>>> (up-arrow,
>>>    Byron> down-arrow) or command completion (tab. BTW, thanks for 
>>> including
>>>    Byron> this---the command line R on any platform AFAIK has never 
>>> sensibly
>>>    Byron> implemented tab. It completes filenames, which is just 
>>> weird).
>>>
>>> that's not true for ESS (http://ESS.R-project.org/)
>>> Tab completion on R objects has worked in ESS ``for ages''.
>>>
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>>
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>> A.J. Rossini
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> Byron Ellis (bellis at hsph.harvard.edu)
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