[ESS] How to assign function key
Martin Maechler
m@ech|er @end|ng |rom @t@t@m@th@ethz@ch
Mon Feb 8 11:06:01 CET 2016
>>>>> Patrick Connolly <p_connolly using slingshot.co.nz>
>>>>> on Sat, 6 Feb 2016 16:11:35 +1300 writes:
> On Fri, 05-Feb-2016 at 08:46PM +0100, Martin Maechler
> wrote: [...]
> |> But I did not understand why you maintain two separate
> elisp functions |> ("comint-kill-output" and "ess-....")
> |> when instead you could use the one that already comes
> with comint, |> i.e. with emacs, |> namely
> comint-delete-output ... the one I found via looking up
> the |> key binding of C-c C-o
> Really? This is what the Fine Manual[1] says:
> 4.2.1 Manipulating the output from the last command
> [...]
> Finally, if you want to discard the last command output
> altogether, use C-c C-o (comint-kill-output), which
> deletes everything from the ^^^^ last command to the
> current prompt. Use this command judiciously to keep your
> transcript to a more manageable size.
> I was making two attempts at achieving what C-c C-o does
> without knowing whether I had to specify 'ess' in the
> name.
> But thanks for that suggestion. I doubt I'd ever have
> thought of trying 'delete' instead of 'kill'. Indeed, it
> works as required if I define this way:
> (global-set-key [f7] 'comint-delete-output)
> End of that problem. Thanks millions.
You are welcome! Glad I could help.
> 1. Fine Manual
> (http://ess.r-project.org/Manual/ess.html#Manual);
The above is now fixed in the development version of the manual
('comint' has changed from when that was written).
Martin
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