Re: Stephen Wolfram's recent blog
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- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:58:46 -0500 (EST)
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OK, that's correct. Turning auto-completion off still allows command completion and restores the old behavior. Thanks. In general I think the principle should be to offer the user help WHEN AND IF HE ASKS FOR IT, but otherwise leave him alone. David Park djmpark at comcast.net http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark/index.html From: Andrzej Kozlowski [mailto:akozlowski at gmail.com] It seems to me that this option has always been there. Just go to Preferences:Interface and uncheck "Enable autocompletion". Then, at least on the Macintosh, Command+K works as before. Andrzej Kozlowski On 17 Feb 2013, at 10:10, djmpark <djmpark at comcast.net> wrote: > To each his own. To me it's like constantly swatting away flies. I > would prefer that WRI gave us the additional option of restoring > Ctrl+K. After all, they have retained Ctrl+Shift+K. > > > David Park > djmpark at comcast.net > http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark/index.html > > > From: Murray Eisenberg [mailto:murrayeisenberg at gmail.com] > > > To the contrary, I find the new (by default) auto-completion a > significant improvement over having to use Ctrl+K. E.g., say I want to > type ChiDistribution. I type 'Chi' and get the drop-down list of 3 > possible completions. Only one of these 3 has 'D' as the next letter. > So I just type 'D' and press Return. Mathematica completes the rest. > > That's a fairly short example. I've found that I can type long > expressions, with many names in them (`System or `Global) much faster now. > > This helps makes up for Mathematica's verbose descriptive language, in > contrast with languages where names are short but often cryptic. > > On Feb 16, 2013, at 1:10 AM, "djmpark" <djmpark at comcast.net> wrote: > >> ...All the doo-dads are to me a nuisance. The one thing I liked was >> the Ctrl+K (which I could type faster than you can say Jack Rabbit) > command completion. >> But now Ctrl+K is gone and what replaces it is ill-conceived and horrible. > > --- > Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu > Mathematics & Statistics Dept. > Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) > University of Massachusetts 413 545-2838 (W) > 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 > Amherst, MA 01003-9305 > > > > > >
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- Re: Stephen Wolfram's recent blog
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- Re: Stephen Wolfram's recent blog
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- Re: Stephen Wolfram's recent blog