[R-SIG-Mac] cmd-return in editor does not go to next line

[Vincent Goulet]

This is actually a feature of ESS (http://ess.r-project.org),  
available for all flavors of Emacs.

For me, this is also the "way to go". And for submitting without  
stepping to the next command, there's always C-c C-j.

Vincent

Le mer. 05 mars à 05:46, MHH Stevens a écrit :

> In Aquamacs, I most often use C-c C-n; this submits a line and step
> to next. I like it because I can keep my left pinkie finger on the
> Crtl key to execute it. (I am not much of a typist).
> Hank
> On Mar 5, 2008, at 4:44 AM, Tim Cole wrote:
>
>> I can see the benefit of single stepping in some cases, but I
>> wouldn't want to lose the current behaviour.
>>
>> Whiile on the subject, cmd-return has an odd feature. Once a line has
>> been submitted using cmd-return, it needs two returns not one to move
>> from the end of the line to the next. I suspect this is not intended
>> - can it be changed?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tim
>>
>> On 05/03/2008, at 5:03 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>>
>>> On 3/4/2008 2:31 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>>>> Rune,
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 4, 2008, at 1:12 PM, Rune Maagensen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I've just started using R 2.62 on OSX 10.4.11 on a macbook 2,1 and
>>>>> found that in the Editor on Windows ctrl-R runs the current
>>>>> line and
>>>>> goes to the next line. On Mac cmd-return runs the current line and
>>>>> stays there. Shouldn't the cursor go to the next line, so a
>>>>> program
>>>>> can be run stepwise with multiple cmd-rtn instead of cmd-rtn down-
>>>>> arrow?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It was not designed to do so, but clearly it could be changed,  I'm
>>>> not sure it's good idea, though, as it combines an action
>>>> (execute a
>>>> line) with a change of selection and that is usually not
>>>> desirable (I
>>>> know that WIndows is known to breach UI design principles all over
>>>> the
>>>> place, but that's another story). Most commonly one uses
>>>> selection to
>>>> select the program/function that will be run instead and you don't
>>>> want to change the position there. Any comments on this from other
>>>> users?
>>>
>>> In Windows the mental image is that there are two functions attached
>>> to
>>> Ctrl-R:
>>>
>>> - if something is selected, then submit it.
>>> - if not, then single step through the script.
>>>
>>> The second function is what Rune is asking about.  I'd say it's good
>>> to
>>> have a "single step" function on a key.  It doesn't need to be the
>>> same
>>> key as "submit the selection", but it doesn't seem to lead to
>>> confusion
>>> if it is.
>>>
>>> On a Mac in the Xcode debugger, what's the key for single stepping?
>>> (My
>>> Mac is at home, I can't check.)  It would make a lot of sense to use
>>> that key for single stepping in the script editor too.
>> --
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