GNU readline ability in the front end
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- Subject: [mg73827] [mg73827] GNU readline ability in the front end
- From: Frank Hu <frank1998 at gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 06:13:03 -0500 (EST)
I'm new to Mathematica and like it. My main complain is the Frontend lacking basic command line editing facilities. Specifically: 1. Line editing. I know there are basic Emacs key-bindings and Cmd- l recalls the previous input. But what about recalling all previous inputs? I'm not talking about re-evaluating the n-th input (In[n]), but actually get back what I typed and make slight modifications, without using the mouse. 2. Command history. Is there anyway to store and restore command history automatically, so I don't have to save every session to a notebook? 3. Filename auto-completion. Cmd-k completes commands, how about filenames? 4. Also, what's with the one-level undo? How difficult is to have multi-level undo? I know there's JMath, but it does only text. Am I missing something or the Frontend indeed is insufficient in this regard? Frank