[R] Command-line editing & history

[Liaw, Andy]

Unless I'm mistaken, all those features (and more) are available if you run
R within ESS/(X)Emacs.

Andy

From: John McHenry
> 
>    Hi all,
> 
> Are there any plans to add more functionality to command-line 
> editing and history editing on the command line?
> 
> In MATLAB (I know, comparisons are odious ...), you can type 
> "p" and up-arrow on the command line and scroll through the 
> recently entered commands beginning with "p". This is a very 
> useful  feature and something that I believe is not replicated in R. 
> Please correct me if I'm wrong; currently I use history(Inf) 
> in R, search for what I want and cut and paste if I find what 
> I'm looking for.
> 
> Also in MATLAB, tab completion is available for directory 
> listings and also for function name completion. Again, I'm 
> unaware of how to do this in R. The added MATLAB  
> functionality makes finding files easy on the command line 
> and it also saves the fingers on long function names. 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jack.
> 
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