[Jprogramming] Copy & Paste

[Linda Alvord]

Sebastian,  J has two environments and they are quite different, but they
are both also similar.  Each has a an active "terminal".  Cut and paste is
line by line as the terminal responds like a person. The dialog is enter,
response, enter..

Each has a place for putting code. In jqt the choices are:  open temp and
new temp.  This is where you paste many lines of code. When you enter new
temp you are in a place to paste your long lines. It is different.  You are
in a place like a word processor for writing letters or email.  You cut and
paste happily. When it is correct, use run with all sorts of choices to use
line by line or all at once. When you run, the response lands back in the
terminal and you can continue until you need to edit again...  Your code is
now saved as a temp file called 1.ijs.  When you like it you can save as...

However, in jhs things seem rather different at first. Once you have a
console working and j installed you are in a browser like chrome.  You start
with link:  the two choices are ijix  and  ijis.  Ijix is the same as term.
So this is where you have a dialog.  ijis is for a script like temp above.
If you now go to ijis you will get 2.ijs because you already have saved
1.ijs. There are fewer choices now, but they should make sense.  

Interestingly you can now open 1.ijs and run it in your browser.  You cut
and paste here in ijis and save and run.

If you get something you want to share, I seem to have better luck when I
cut a paste results from ijix when I want to put the results in an email.

Once you digest all this please let us know when you hit another challenge.

Linda

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Sent: Friday, August 29, 2014 4:14 AM
To: programmsing at jsoftware.com
Subject: [Jprogramming] Copy & Paste

Hi,

How can I actually copy and paste J scripts to a term window and execute 
the code directly. So far I copied small scripts (only a few lines) line 
per line, but this is not a really solution and now I have to copy 
scripts with many lines.

Best regards,
Sebastian
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