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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 09:20:43AM -0600, Juan Pablo Romero wrote:
> I've been playing with sessions lately, specially R and XYpic.
> 
> I find them extremely useful, and I'd like to make a couple of suggestions:
> 
> * What about a "copy input from above" / "copy output from above"
> functions? (you know, like mathematica's <Ctrl+L>, <Shift+Ctrl+L>).

I agree. I have this in mind since a while, but never found time for it.
Notice that an input may be quickly selected using C-space several times.

> * The possibility of hiding the input; just show the result (perhaps a
> little icon on the left?).

Yes, a good wish for the wish-list too...

> Regarding the drawing mode, I don't know if it's even feasible, but
> one thing I'd find really useful would be the ability of drawing
> something (an arrow, an oval, etc) superimposed in any part of the
> document, not only in certain frame.

This will not be for the near future, since this would interact
very badly with the page breaking mechanism. On the other hand,
the graphical mode *should* provide a facility to write texts
in columns of a given width (Henri: please put this as an item
on the list for version 2).

Best wishes, Joris