R help - Oct 2010 - Key combination that removes all R objects

Dear readers, 

There is a combination of keys that I have (on several occasions now)
typed by accident into R (2.10.0) which removes all the objects in the
environment, and clears the console, as though I had typed
rm(list=ls()). 
Unfortunately I don't know what the combination of keys are, so I am
struggling to find out more about this behaviour on my own and I was
hoping that someone has come across it before.
Does anyone i) know what combination of keys this is (so that I am more
cautious around them in future) or better yet, ii) know how to disable
this shortcut?

Thanks for your time,
Claire


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I am not aware of the existance of a shortcut that would do what you describe.

On Windows, one could hit Ctrl-M, followed by R, but then one gets a prompt,
asking for confirmation to remove all objects, but this can't be what you
are referring to.

Are you perhaps using Tinn-R and (accidentally) hitting F12 (which does in fact
exactly what you describe)?

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----Original Message----
From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org
[mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of
claire-c.jones at ubs.com Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 16:10 To:
r-help at r-project.org Subject: [R] Key combination that removes all R
objects
> Dear readers,
>
> There is a combination of keys that I have (on several occasions now)
> typed by accident into R (2.10.0) which removes all the objects in
> the environment, and clears the console, as though I had typed
> rm(list=ls()).
> Unfortunately I don't know what the combination of keys are, so I am
> struggling to find out more about this behaviour on my own and I was
> hoping that someone has come across it before. Does anyone i) know
> what combination of keys this is (so that I am more cautious around
> them in future) or better yet, ii) know how to disable this shortcut?
>
> Thanks for your time,
> Claire