[Rd] Misc/List Search Path from keyboard (PR#11036)

ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Thu Mar 27 16:00:14 CET 2008


  This message is in MIME format.  The first part should be readable text,
  while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools.

--27464147-424409593-1206629856=:11528
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT

OK, so it is Windows idiosyncracy!

If there is more than one '&' in menu item string, Windows (at least XP) 
underlines the last one and takes the first one as the shortcut key.
I've had to add code to ensure that there is at most one.

Given that this once worked (say in 1999), I suspect earlier versions of 
Windows did something different.  (Those versions used to display 
underlines are all times.)

Fixed in 2.7.0 alpha shortly (and I've forced this one to 'p' rather than 
'i').

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk wrote:

>  This message is in MIME format.  The first part should be readable text,
>  while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools.
>
> --27464147-934395014-1206614168=:3302
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT
>
> Yes, thanks but there is a bit more to it than that. Actually Alt-M plus
> 'i' works, the issue being that graphapp is underlining the wrong letter.
>
> I know how to get the correct letter underlined, but not yet how to get
> it specified differently.
>
>
> On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
>
>> richardwreed at gmail.com wrote:
>>> Full_Name: Richard Reed
>>> Version: 2.6.2
>>> OS: MS Windows XP Pro
>>> Submission from: (NULL) (76.121.170.35)
>>>
>>>
>>> Pressing Alt-M+s doesn't search path. It just generates another ">". It does
>>> this in "vanilla" too. However, Alt-M+click "list search path" does work. Note
>>> that when I press Alt-M (and the "Misc" menu drops down) the second "s" in "list
>>> search way" is underlined indicating the "s" should complete the command.
>>>
>>>
>> Yes. There's another S earlier in the misc menu ("_S_top current
>> computation"), so presumably the search path should move to another key
>> (P, say).
>>
>>
>> --
>>   O__  ---- Peter Dalgaard             Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B
>>  c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics     PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K
>> (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen   Denmark      Ph:  (+45) 35327918
>> ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk)              FAX: (+45) 35327907
>>
>> ______________________________________________
>> R-devel at r-project.org mailing list
>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
>>
>
> --
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
> 1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595
> --27464147-934395014-1206614168=:3302--
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-devel at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
>

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595
--27464147-424409593-1206629856=:11528--



More information about the R-devel mailing list