Re: Run editor selection

[Andrew Janke]

On 10/20/19 8:41 AM, Torsten Lilge wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I would like to discuss the desired behavior, when running code, which
> is selected in the gui's editor ("Run Selection"). Currently the
> selected code is executed in the console line by line. This does not
> work if a keyboard command is included, which is more or less ignored
> (see https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?42705).
>
> Using Fsource of a temp. file or Feval would solve this issue. However,
> in this case, the commands themselves are not displayed in the console
> and are not added to the history. This in turn could be fixed by, e.g.,
> extending the selected text by commands for displaying and updateing the
> history.
>
> What is the desired behavior here, execute the selected portion of code
> like a script or as if it was manually entered into the console?

This might be my "do what Matlab does" bias speaking, but I prefer the 
current behavior of it executing line-by-line as though typed in the 
terminal, and getting added to the command history.

Most of the time when I use Run Selection, I'm either iterating 
development on a script that I run incrementally in the base workspace, 
or in a "dbstop" breakpoint in the debugger, poking at local data and 
trying various things. In both these situations, it's handy to have the 
evaluated commands in the history.

Cheers,
Andrew