Re: [Texmacs-dev] keymappings

[Sam Liddicott]

On 09/08/11 15:29, Michael Lachmann wrote:
> Thanks for the reply!
>
> On 9 Aug 2011, at 1:58PM, Sam Liddicott wrote:
>
> > The R menu should be in your preferences.
> You mean, in the personal init file?
> So I should direct users how to add an R menu by editing their init files?
> Another option is that in the menu that opens from the little monitor icon, 
> where you can select the R session, a whole submenu would be inserted. I don't 
> know if it is currently possible, or how hard that would be...

I don't know either.

> > The shortcuts could potentally be global, but I don't understand them.
> >
> > I don't know why you need "R1." and "R2." ...what will the shortcut "R2." do if 
> > you already have 2 R sessions?
> R1. and R2. open two sessions. If, for example, you have a remote session on 
> R1., then you can start a local one with R2.
> Or, if session R1 is in a long calculation, and you just quickly want to try 
> something. Or, if you open a second document, but don't want to mix the 
> calculation between the two documents.
>
> An alternative is to have a separate session for each document. This means that 
> you can't easily share values between documents. The main times I use this is 
> when I clean up a document, or sum it up - then I open a second, cleaned 
> document.

Sharing of sessions between documents scares me. I think because I don't 
want to clean up a document. For this reason I generally avoid using 
shell sessions - but a shell is probably much more stateful than an R 
session.

Sam

> Michael
>
>
> > Sam
> >
> > On 05/08/11 14:36, Michael Lachmann wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I want to update the TeXmacs R interface to my latest version. (even with some 
> > > limited syntax highlighting...)
> > >
> > > But I have the following problem:
> > >
> > > I work a lot with this interface, so I added shortcuts to insert a new session.
> > >
> > > "R1." inserts the default R session (no alt, clt, esc or anything!)
> > > "R2." inserts a second new session
> > > "R3." a third
> > >
> > > "RR." asks the user for a remote host, and starts a session there - this is 
> > > started as the default session, so R1. will insert sessions to that remote R.
> > >
> > > Now the question is this: what should I do with these shortcuts - they make it 
> > > much nicer to work with R, but they are called from outside the R session 
> > > (because you want to insert a session), and possibly before any R session is in 
> > > the document (you want to start a new session).
> > >
> > > In particular, RR., which starts a remote session starts before any session is 
> > > inserted, and there currently is no menu to do that.
> > >
> > > So:
> > >
> > > Should these be global shortcuts?
> > > Should there be a global R menu, before any R session is started?
> > > Should this just be use preferences, so I'll have them in my personal init, but 
> > > no one else?
> > > Should they still be activated only when you select to insert an R session? So, 
> > > you'll have to insert one session, and then you have shortcuts? And with remote 
> > > session I'll have to think what to do?
> > >
> > >
> > > What do you think?
> > >
> > > Michael
> > >
> > >
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