[R-SIG-Mac] built-in editor underlining

[Simon Urbanek]

Parlamis,

On Sep 17, 2006, at 3:05 AM, Parlamis Franklin wrote:

> Thanks, Simon.  Of course I don't think you should do anything that  
> would prohibit sourcing the file (and I guess most would agree).
>
> Re: syntax coloring.  I've turned it off because, when editing the  
> beginning of a long file, I would get a long delay (multiple  
> seconds) after I entered an open quotes (") as the rest of the  
> document changed color because all quotes were now matched  
> differently.

Ok, I see - this is definitely something we can work on. I tend to  
split long scripts, because they are easier to manage, so I didn't  
see that behavior. Currently R.app does full highlighting for the  
entire file each time you change something. I guess a better approach  
would be to do the immediate highlighting only for a few dozen lines  
and update it asynchronously later (or on-demand). This shouldn't be  
too hard to do, I'll see if I can implement that it in the next few  
days..

Thanks,
Simon



> Not sure whether this is a slow implementation of that  
> functionality, or what is to done about it, but for this user at  
> least, the delay issue outweighs any benefit that I could get from  
> syntax coloring.
>
> Franklin
>
> On Sep 16, 2006, at 4:52 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>
>> The build-in editor doesn't store any text attribute changes as  
>> the output is plain text. It does, however, allow text attribute  
>> changes, because they are used e.g. for syntax highlighting.  
>> Strictly speaking the bug is that you can use the <Cmd><U> command  
>> at all.
>>
>> Another approach would be to enhance the editor to support RTF  
>> format (internally it actually does allow it) which would allow  
>> you to use formatted text and store it. The drawback is that such  
>> a text is no longer executable directly in R, so you couldn't  
>> "source" it. I not quite sure what is more useful - I'm almost  
>> inclined to think that banning text format changes makes more  
>> sense, but I'm open to other suggestions...
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Simon
>>
>> On Sep 15, 2006, at 8:53 PM, Parlamis Franklin wrote:
>>
>>> if i open a blank document in the built-in editor and enter the
>>> following text:
>>>
>>> Help
>>>
>>> Help
>>>
>>> and then underline the first "Help" (by highlighting it, and using
>>> either Meta-U  or Format>Font>Underline), the underlining will show
>>> up in my current session.  but if i save the document and reopen it,
>>> the underlining will be gone.  what is more, if i then open the
>>> document in another text editor (try TextEdit), highlight the first
>>> help and try to underline it, everything in the document will be
>>> underlined, including the second "Help"
>>>
>>> i've been using 2.4.0 alpha (about a week old) and the R.app
>>> deployment build (Version 1.17-pre (3779)) for R 2.4.x from http://
>>> cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/
>>>
>>> franklin parlamis
>>>
>>>> version
>>>                 _
>>> platform       powerpc-apple-darwin8.7.0
>>> arch           powerpc
>>> os             darwin8.7.0
>>> system         powerpc, darwin8.7.0
>>> status         alpha
>>> major          2
>>> minor          4.0
>>> year           2006
>>> month          09
>>> day            06
>>> svn rev        39158
>>> language       R
>>> version.string R version 2.4.0 alpha (2006-09-06 r39158)
>>>
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