[R-SIG-Mac] key bindings for clearing line

[Emiliano Guevara]

Dear Carl,

My guess is that the funny boxes are either Unicode characters and  
that the editor you are opening the file with is not Unicode-aware, or  
that they are control characters like backspace, Ctrl, etc. (basically  
the first 30 or so code points in the ASCII/ISO LATIN character table).

In any case, if you are interested in making your own custom key- 
bindings for Mac OS X, these two links are extremely useful and clear:

http://www.lsmason.com/articles/macosxkeybindings.html
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/cocoa-text.html

Hope it helps,

E.




On Jun 16, 2008, at 23:11 PM, Carl Witthoft wrote:

>
>
>> On Jun 13, 2008, at 11:24 PM, Vadim Patsalo wrote:
>>> Hello Everyone,
>>>
>>> I was hoping to make the following feature request: I've noticed   
>>> that R.app uses the standard Ctrl-a and Ctrl-e to jump to the   
>>> beginning and the end of the line on the console and in the  
>>> editor.  However, I have not found a way to clear the current line  
>>> (akin to  Ctrl-c, Ctrl-u, Ctrl-k in the shell of your choice).  
>>> Would it be  possible for the two to be added as key combinations?  
>>> Is there a  quick way to clear the current line that I am missing?
>> Unless I am mistaken this is simply a consequence of that fact that  
>> OS  X has semi-Emacs like keybindings in most text fields (well  
>> Cocoa text  fields). The same holds true for Terminal, Safari and  
>> other  applications. I say semi because only some keybindings are  
>> supported,  but it is relatively easy to add more keybindings. Do a  
>> google search  for something like Emacs like keybindings in Cocoa.
>> The relevant files are called something like StandardKeyBinding.dict
>
> Great :-(   : I took a look at SKB.dict.  It's full of keys like "~ 
> $"
> ( that's tilde - dollar sign - funny box with an x-ish thing in it).
> Anyone want to take a flyer at what keys those represent?
>
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