On 7/18/19 1:17 PM, Mark Leeds wrote: > thanks david. that worked for me too and I like your detective > approach. I'll remember that the next time I need another equivalent.
I think it might be fairly dangerous if you have an application open that contains work you have not saved. I also found that the opposite effect is achieved with ctrl-\. Kind of made sense that slash and backslash were opposites. Also discovered with an analogous strategy. I got no effect with ctrl-<any of the middle tier of keys> -- David > > On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 4:13 PM David Winsemius > <dwinsem...@comcast.net <mailto:dwinsem...@comcast.net>> wrote: > > > On 7/18/19 1:02 PM, Mark Leeds wrote: > > Hi All: I'm using an old version of Ubuntu, 14.04, and I can't > figure out a > > keyboard sequence that "selects all" analogously to what ctrl-a > does on > > windows ? > > > > If anyone can be bothered running below and see if they have a > way to > > select all four fruits at once, it's appreciated. I've spent > quite a bit of > > time searching the net, going on AskUbuntu etc > > but no luck. Thanks. > > > > library(tcltk) > > fruits <- c("pear", "apple", "banana", "peach") > > temp <- tk_select.list(choices = fruits, preselect = NULL, > multiple = TRUE) > > > > print(temp) > Ctrl-/ picks all items on my setup. > > I'm in 18.04 inside Rstudio so my experience may be different. > > > I discovered this by holding the control key down and sliding my > finger > across the lower tier of keys. > > -- > > David > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > _______________________________________________ > > R-SIG-Debian mailing list > > R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org <mailto:R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org> > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Debian mailing list > R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org <mailto:R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
