On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Duncan Murdoch<murd...@stats.uwo.ca> wrote: > On 7/3/2009 2:14 PM, cls59 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. > > But doesn't that require you to edit out results? The nice thing in the > Windows Rgui is that it does everything for you. So I can take a block of > text like > >> x <- 1 >> x > [1] 1 >> y <- 2 >> y > [1] 2 >> x + y > [1] 3 > > and cut and "paste commands only" to re-execute it, without manually editing > out the [1] 1, [1] 2, [1] 3 lines. (Tony Plate contributed this code way > back in R 1.9.0; thanks Tony!) > >> 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. > > I think there's something of a culture clash here. I consider it torture to > use an editor that does that. Line numbers are part of the frame around the > text, they shouldn't be copied as part of the text. (I was going to say I'd > never use such an editor, but that's not true: sometimes I have no choice.)
At least on Windows if you turn line numbering on in vim (its off by default) then selecting with the mouse and copying does not include them. ______________________________________________ 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.
