On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 2:14 PM, cls59<ch...@sharpsteen.net> wrote: > > > Duncan Murdoch-2 wrote: >> >> The Windows GUI was written before the Mac GUI, and was written using a >> fairly strange toolkit, which are two reasons the Mac looks prettier. >> But the Windows GUI has a few advantages over the Mac: >> >> (snip) >> >> You can copy from the console, prompts and all, and paste just the >> commands, to re-execute a sequence of commands. >> > > I recently noticed that the Mac GUI contains a way to do block selection- so > you can select just the code you want to copy and exclude the prompts. Just > hold down the option key and the text cursor will turn into a crosshair > which allows you to exclude the prompt column while you select. > > Even better, this behavior is somewhat universal as it works in other > applications such as the Terminal. I find it particularly useful for copying > code out of Vim without getting Vim's line numbers wrapped up in my > selections. >
Unless the Mac version of vim/gvim works differently, line numbers are off by default; however, if you have turned them on in your startup file you can turn them off with: :set nonumber ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
