[plt-scheme] DrScheme frustration

i gotcha.  I guess the advantage of mousing around, though, is that it's
universal across IDE's and languages.  You don't show up at someone's house
or job and go, "I can't work without my favorite editor".  Might be cool if
you could go to a previous line, edit it, hit return wherever you are in the
line, and then, it goes back to the way it was or something, but "it's all
good".  I'm just jumping in all out of order is my problem.



On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Richard Cleis <rcleis at mac.com> wrote:

> Also: ESC-n goes to the Next line in the buffer after you have used ESC-p
> to access Previous lines.
> Furthermore: control-e goes to the End of the line (so you can hit the
> return)
>
> Also: control-a goes to the, uh, beginning of the line (Anterior? Affront?
> I think of 'a' as the first letter).
>
> There are a bunch more key combinations if you desire to become one of the
> people who argue that mousing-around is too slow ;)
>
> rac
>
> On Feb 22, 2009, at 9:22 AM, e wrote:
>
> cool.  That solves the up-arrow prob!  I was sitting there googling "esc-p"
> until I got what you were saying :)  I thought you meant a "history about
> why it is the way it is" and I could find more about it at the "Epson
> Standard Code for Printers" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESC/P
>
> :)
>
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Robby Findler <
> robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>
>> There is a history available via esc-p.
>>
>> Robby
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 8:18 AM, e <eviertel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > again, just tell me if I need to read more first, 'cause maybe I'm doing
>> > this wrong...
>> >
>> > ...but I'm struggling with the fact that I may have a bunch of stuff
>> typed
>> > into the bottom window during a run session, and then, when I find
>> there's a
>> > problem with my definitions, I want to fix them and see what happens.
>>  Of
>> > course there's a warning in the window below that my definitions are
>> stale.
>> > So when I stop and start again, everything I had typed is gone!
>> >
>> > long winded aside ...
>> > It wasn't the best way to get the previously typed things to re-execute
>> in
>> > the first place ... no up arrow, and you have to be at the end of a
>> previous
>> > expression to transfer it to a new line.  I can see why you don't want
>> the
>> > user to just edit it in place back in history, too ... although that
>> would
>> > also be very convenient. (The approach that works means your cursor is
>> no
>> > where near the place in the text that you wanted to tweak --- best would
>> be
>> > if you could hit return even in the middle of a previous expression
>> ........
>> >
>> > (and we're back again)
>> > ..... at least you could get back to what you had typed.
>> >
>> > Should I just not be using DrScheme this way?  I can't imagine this is
>> how
>> > it's done, always losing all your history of experiments just because
>> you
>> > redefine a function.
>> >
>> > Thanks, as always.
>> >
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