Here are two more standard emacs bindings that work: Ctrl-K to cut and Ctrl-Y to paste.
••••• Brian Lee Yung Rowe 917 496 4583 On Jul 5, 2013, at 2:32 PM, William Dunlap <wdun...@tibco.com> wrote: >> But up-arrow, ctrl-A then "z <-" is not much less convenient, is it? > > I didn't know that ctrl-A would bring me to the start of the line, nor > that ctrl-E would bring me to the end. Thanks. > > Bill Dunlap > Spotfire, TIBCO Software > wdunlap tibco.com > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: peter dalgaard [mailto:pda...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Friday, July 05, 2013 11:25 AM >> To: William Dunlap >> Cc: Barry Rowlingson; R-devel >> Subject: Re: [Rd] should the text for RIGHT_ASSIGN be -> in getParseData()? >> >> >> On Jul 5, 2013, at 18:59 , William Dunlap wrote: >> >>>> Is there any reason right-assign with "->" still exists? How much >>>> code on CRAN uses it, and how trivially could it be excised? >>> >>> I use '->' a lot when doing interactive work. I often first run a command >>> to see its printed output then decide that I had better save its value. >>> The up-arrow key gives me the previous command line with the cursor placed >>> at the >>> end of the line so adding '-> z' at the end of the line is convenient. >>> (Not using the up-arrow key and doing 'z <- .Last.value' also works, but >>> I don't like its context sensitivity.) >> >> But up-arrow, ctrl-A then "z <-" is not much less convenient, is it? >> >> I have used in with multi-line input, occasionally, though. As in >> >> replicate(10000, { >> ysim <- rbinom(length(p), n, p) >> glm(cbind(ysim, n - ysim) ~ x, binomial)$deviance >> }) >> >> ... and then you realize that you probably don't want to look at 10000 >> simulated >> deviances and add "-> simDev". >> >>> >>> I never use '->' when writing code in a file, so you would have to search >>> my .Rhistory files, not my *.R files, for evidence of its usefulness to me. >>> >>> Bill Dunlap >>> Spotfire, TIBCO Software >>> wdunlap tibco.com >>> >>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] >>>> On >> Behalf >>>> Of Barry Rowlingson >>>> Sent: Friday, July 05, 2013 9:29 AM >>>> To: Duncan Murdoch >>>> Cc: R-devel >>>> Subject: Re: [Rd] should the text for RIGHT_ASSIGN be -> in getParseData()? >>>> >>>> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Duncan Murdoch >>>> <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> R itself doesn't make use of the text column, it's for display of code >>>>> by highlighters etc. So if anyone does assume text is a function name, >>>>> it's their bug, not ours. In fact, the bug is already there, because >>>>> there is actually one other example which was being parsed properly, >>>>> "**" is translated to "^". There's no `**` function, but 2**3 works. >>>> >>>> Is there any reason right-assign with "->" still exists? How much >>>> code on CRAN uses it, and how trivially could it be excised? Can we >>>> also have 'up assign' and "down assign" so I can do: >>>> >>>>> 3 >>>>> x -^ >>>>> x -v >>>>> 4 >>>> >>>> - they make just as much sense. >>>> >>>> Okay, lets see all the edge cases..... >>>> >>>> Barry >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________ >>>> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> >> -- >> Peter Dalgaard, Professor, >> Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School >> Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark >> Phone: (+45)38153501 >> Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel