Re: [Gretl-devel] 2 small suggestions
On Thu, 24 Oct 2013, Talha Yalta wrote:
Hi all,
I have 2 small suggestions:
1)- I think it is better if gretl does not ask "start a new gretl
instance?" Other programs (R, LibreOffice, ...) don't do this.
There was a long debate between March and May on the respective merits of
the two choices, and IMO we collectively took a very balanced decision.
You may want to start from
http://lists.wfu.edu/pipermail/gretl-devel/2013-April/004398.html
I don't think we should revisit the decision we made at that time.
Besides, bear in mind that one instance of Openoffice enables you to work
on more than one document at a time, whereas you can't work on more than
one dataset at a time from one gretl instance, so if you want/need to have
two dataset open simultaneously, you've got to have multiple instances.
Comparison with R doesn't really apply IMO, because in R there's no such a
thing like the "current dataset" we have in gretl.
2)- When importing data from an odf, csv, (or other) file; if
something
goes wrong (such as selecting the wrong worksheet), gretl deletes the entry
of the file from the recently used files list. This can be annoying because
then the user has to browse through the directories to re-show the file.
IMHO, no file should be deleted from such lists unless the file cannot be
found.
This makes sense, I agree.
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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