Hi, Taverna 2 has an improved text editor for beanshell, where you can do undo and redo with CTRL or CMD key (depending on your platform). I suppose this is one of the things we should port back when we do a new release of Taverna 1.
Alex Andrea Wiggins wrote: > I think my colleague James Howison requested the ability to launch an > external text editor for beanshells sometime last year, so please add > a +2 for the request for an improved beanshell text editor. I like the > idea of being able to launch an alternate external text editor because > most users are likely to have a program suited to their specific > tastes and needs. Sadly, my coding skills are such that I can't > contribute the code to do it, but I can share my usual work-arounds. > > I have generally found that when I accidentally deleted beanshell code > (I work in 1.7 as well) then I just close the workflow without saving; > when I re-open it, the code is back where it ought to be. Of course, I > also lose any other changes between the last prior save and my > accidental code deletion... Another way that I've recovered > accidentally deleted beanshell code is from the process report detail > of a prior run of the workflow I'm developing. It's not perfect, but > has saved my skin a few times. > > This kind of accidental deletion in beanshells happens quite a lot for > me because the keyboard shortcuts that can be used with beanshells in > 1.7 are for Windows. Accidentally applying the keyboard shortcuts that > work just fine everywhere else on my Mac (including in the Rshell > editor) therefore overwrites any selected text in the beanshell editor > and makes me very sad. > > Andrea > > > On Mar 26, 2009, at 9:23 AM, > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: > >> Message: 3 >> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:38:49 +0000 >> From: Paul Fisher <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> >> Subject: Re: [Taverna-users] Feature request >> To: [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> Message-ID: <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed >> >> Further to this still.... >> >> Could it also include/extend the undo functionality to the processor. I >> just deleted half my beanshell code by accident. I can't even close it >> as it wil save the current code. >> BTW, this is in T1.7. I don't know if the undo works in T2 for beamshells >> >> cheers, >> Paul. > > Andrea Wiggins > PhD Student, School of Information Studies > Syracuse University > > 337 Hinds Hall > Syracuse, NY 13244 > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > www.andreawiggins.com <http://www.andreawiggins.com> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > taverna-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/taverna-users > Documentation: http://www.mygrid.org.uk/usermanual1.7/ > FAQ: http://www.mygrid.org.uk/wiki/Mygrid/TavernaFaq > Biological Services: > http://www.mygrid.org.uk/wiki/Mygrid/BiologicalWebServices -- ..................................... Dr Alexandra Nenadic Research Associate, myGrid Project School of Computer Science University of Manchester Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~nenadic Office: +44 (0)161 275 0672 Fax: +44 (0) 161 275 6204 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ taverna-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/taverna-users Documentation: http://www.mygrid.org.uk/usermanual1.7/ FAQ: http://www.mygrid.org.uk/wiki/Mygrid/TavernaFaq Biological Services: http://www.mygrid.org.uk/wiki/Mygrid/BiologicalWebServices
