I'm probably not the first with this idea so I guess that there's a complex issue behind it but since I couldn't find an answer I just though to ask: Wouldn't it be nice to have color coded objects as output of ls() statement? Functions of one color and rest with other (at least). So when I issue an ls() I could visually discern different types of objects. I often find myself opening old files and spending time figuring which is which. I know this just means I'm not aoranized, but still...color coding would help. Regards to everyone, ___________________ Gasper Cankar researcher National Examinations Centre (Ric) gasper.cankar at ric.si tel. +386 1 54 84 682 fax. +386 1 54 84 601
Unfortunately, the problem is the way the R output is set up---there's no portable way (at the moment) to tag output with different attributes. On Nov 21, 2007 4:11 AM, Gasper Cankar <gasper.cankar at ric.si> wrote:> I'm probably not the first with this idea so I guess that there's a > complex issue behind it but since I couldn't find an answer I just > though to ask: > > Wouldn't it be nice to have color coded objects as output of ls() > statement? Functions of one color and rest with other (at least). So > when I issue an ls() I could visually discern different types of > objects. > > I often find myself opening old files and spending time figuring which > is which. I know this just means I'm not aoranized, but still...color > coding would help. > > Regards to everyone, > > ___________________ > Gasper Cankar > researcher > National Examinations Centre (Ric) > gasper.cankar at ric.si > tel. +386 1 54 84 682 > fax. +386 1 54 84 601 > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >-- Byron Ellis (byron.ellis at gmail.com) "Oook" -- The Librarian
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Gasper Cankar wrote:> I'm probably not the first with this idea so I guess that there's a > complex issue behind it but since I couldn't find an answer I just > though to ask: > > Wouldn't it be nice to have color coded objects as output of ls() > statement? Functions of one color and rest with other (at least). So > when I issue an ls() I could visually discern different types of > objects. > > I often find myself opening old files and spending time figuring which > is which. I know this just means I'm not aoranized, but still...color > coding would help.You haven't mentioned your platform: you would have to be working in a console which supported this, and e.g. the Windows GUI console does not. Once you know the escape codes to change colour, it would be easy to write a listing function which did this. You would almost certainly have to write some C code to find out what the codes are for the current terminal (on a modern system via the terminfo database): the GNU ls (part of coreutils) would provide you example code. So, this is project for a package: are you volunteering? -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595