R devel - Apr 2004 - Wishlist - Windows Gui keyboard select (PR#6762)

Full_Name: Robert Baer
Version: 1.9.0
OS: Windows 2002
Submission from: (NULL) (198.209.172.106)


In a command line interface like R, keyboard selection for copying is more
"natural" than mouse selecting.  I would WISH that Shift-arrow key
could be used
to select R commands for cutting and pasting command text.

In most Windows programs/Editors, holding down shift and using the "arrow
keys"
selects/deselects text from the inital cursor postion in the dirction of the
arrow key pressed "left, right, up, down".  It would be nice if R
Windows GUI
mirrored this convention at least for the left and right arrows.  

Because the "base position" would be the KEYBOARD cursor position, and
by design
that is always on the bottom line in RGUI, the down arrow would probably only be
used to deselect what had been previously selected.  Selection with the up arrow
key becomes meaningful as of version 1.9.0 now that there is a paste commands
only available.