Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
Path: watmath!watserv2.uwaterloo.ca!torn!utcsri!geac!itcyyz!yrloc!hui
From: hui@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Roger Hui)
Subject: Re: J Docs are good!  Ideas about windowing...
Message-ID: <1992Oct21.053223.860@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM>
Organization: Iverson Software Inc.
References: <71520@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1992Oct17.150004.8173@ips.cs.tu-bs.de>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 92 05:32:23 GMT

Martin Neitzel writes:

> On a PC I found the standard DOS line editing facilities or those
> provided by the widely known "ced" command line editor more useful
> than J's built-in session manager.  (I found it cumbersome to access
> the last input expression adjusting the bar again and again.  Could
> some kind soul enlighten me what I'm missing or doing wrong?)
 
j /s   starts J without the session manager; in that mode, J accepts
standard input and generates standard output.
 
I should point out that the session manager offers up and down scrolling,
left and right scrolling, and clipped or wrapped display; and the bar
provides access to previous input _and_ output lines.

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Roger Hui, Iverson Software Inc., 33 Major Street, Toronto, Ontario  M5S 2K9
Phone: (416) 925 6096;  Fax: (416) 488 7559
