[rkward-devel] UI wishlist

[Prasenjit Kapat]

Hi,

On Wednesday 18 April 2007 05:46:08 pm Prasenjit Kapat wrote:
> > - file system browser tab, as included in kate, to easy access generated
> > files as PDFs from within rkward.
>
> That would be nice, but viewing non-R (.R, .RData, etc) files would
> need to spawn a different process (not a child process), like kpdf (or
> xpdf or..) for PDFs, which will have to be outside RKWard. Does any
> IDE do that? Kate (ok, kate is not an IDE) doesnot. If you try to open
> a pdf file from kate's file browser tab, it will try open it as a text
> file in the editor, rather than starting a completely different
> process with kpdf (or xpdf or..). I do not remember if Kile does
> that.. Will try it when I get home.

Ok, Kile takes care of only .tex files through its File system browser. So, I 
don't know how, if at all, what you suggested can be implemented!

> > - shortcut to switch between script file and R console window (or is
> > there already one? if not, it is badly needed)
>
> As of now, Alt+4 works to show/hide the R consolde window. So, if you
> are in a script file, and R console is in hide mode then, pressing
> Alt+4 (once) will pull up the R console and set the cursor focus to
> it; if R console is already shown, then pressing Alt+4 (TWICE, hide
> and then show) will do the job. Other option (as I sometimes do) is to
> detach the R console window and use Alt+Tab.

Ok, another mistake, in both the cases, Alt+4 (ONCE) works... I didn't have 
access to RKWard in the department.