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Re: Stephen Wolfram's recent blog
Posted:
Feb 19, 2013 1:09 AM
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Aha! I hadn't realized that Cmd+k (or Ctrl+k on Windows, I presume) is
automatically enabled if one turns off "Enable autocompletion" in
Preferences. Now we do seem to have the best of all possible worlds here.
On Feb 18, 2013, at 6:02 AM, Andrzej Kozlowski <akozlowski@gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems to me that this option has always been there. Just go to
> Preferences:Interface and uncheck "Enable autocompletion". Then, at
> least on the Macintosh, Command+K works as before.
>
> Andrzej Kozlowski
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> On 17 Feb 2013, at 10:10, djmpark <djmpark@comcast.net> wrote:
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>> To each his own. To me it's like constantly swatting away flies. I would
>> prefer that WRI gave us the additional option of restoring Ctrl+K. After
>> all, they have retained Ctrl+Shift+K.
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>> David Park
>> djmpark@comcast.net
>> http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark/index.html
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>> From: Murray Eisenberg [mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com]
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>> To the contrary, I find the new (by default) auto-completion a significant
>> improvement over having to use Ctrl+K. E.g., say I want to type
>> ChiDistribution. I type 'Chi' and get the drop-down list of 3 possible
>> completions. Only one of these 3 has 'D' as the next letter. So I just type
>> 'D' and press Return. Mathematica completes the rest.
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>> That's a fairly short example. I've found that I can type long expressions,
>> with many names in them (`System or `Global) much faster now.
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>> This helps makes up for Mathematica's verbose descriptive language, in
>> contrast with languages where names are short but often cryptic.
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>> On Feb 16, 2013, at 1:10 AM, "djmpark" <djmpark@comcast.net> wrote:
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>>> ...All the doo-dads are to me a nuisance. The one thing I liked was
>>> the Ctrl+K (which I could type faster than you can say Jack Rabbit)
>> command completion.
>>> But now Ctrl+K is gone and what replaces it is ill-conceived and horrible.
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>> ---
>> Murray Eisenberg murray@math.umass.edu
>> Mathematics & Statistics Dept.
>> Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H)
>> University of Massachusetts 413 545-2838 (W)
>> 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801
>> Amherst, MA 01003-9305
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Murray Eisenberg murray@math.umass.edu
Mathematics & Statistics Dept.
Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H)
University of Massachusetts 413 545-2838 (W)
710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801
Amherst, MA 01003-9305
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