Em 30 de julho de 2011 Peter <psummers@highpoint.edu> escreveu

Henrique,

>Today a colleague asked me where she could find the buttons "cut" and "redo" in the script editor window.

>I think it would be nice to have these buttons. What do you think?

You can do ctrl-x (cut), ctrl-v (paste) and ctrl-z (undo), at least on windows. I personally prefer doing keyboard commands to mouse-clicks, so these work fine for me in the majority of cases. That said, I for one don't have much of an opinion on the extra buttons.

Dear Peter, thanks for your answer!

I know about the keyboard shortcuts, but there are some occasions that the buttons could help a lot.

The first one is related to Gretl for Mac. The keyboard shortcuts for native applications are command+x, command+v, etc. while X11 applications (like Gretl) use control instead of command. This is a little bit annoying. With the buttons we don't have this problem.

The second argument is one of the most important feature of Gretl: "Ease of use". As incredible as it may seem, there are people that doesn't know keyboard shortcuts.

Best regards and thanks again,
Henrique C. de Andrade
Doutorando em Economia Aplicada
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
www.ufrgs.br/ppge