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Interactive software accepts and responds to input from humans, in contrast to noninteractive software, which operate without human contact.

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How can I use, in Visual Studio 2017, the "C# Interactive" window to query a source in my "Data Connections"

I'm connected to an external SQL server in my "Data Connections" (in the "Server Explorer" view). I can right click my SQL source and click "New Query" to quickly look up data with SQL statements. I would like to use LINQ instead and I think the "C#…
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Adding Completion to (interactive)

Is there any way to add my own completion to an (interactive) elisp function? Ideally, I'd like to pass it a list of strings that it would tab-complete from. I know that using (interactive "D"), (interactive "F") or (interactive "b") give you…
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Emacs lisp: Concise way to get `directory-files` without "." and ".."?

The function directory-files returns the . and .. entries as well. While in a sense it is true, that only this way the function returns all existing entries, I have yet to see a use for including these. On the other hand, every time a use…
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git rebase -i presents an empty MacVim file

I'm trying to rebase a commit. However, any time I run git rebase -i f83eff3ffc8, for example, a MacVim window opens, that's empty (there is no information in the file). Then once I write and close the file (even though it's empty), I get a…
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Writing a lazy, functional, interactive command line application in Clojure

I'm wondering: what is the best way to write a Clojure program that interacts with a user or another program thorough stdin and stdout? Clearly it would be possible to write some kind of imperative loop, but I'm hoping to find something more lazy /…
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bash: choose default from case when enter is pressed in a "select" prompt

I'm prompting questions in a bash script like this: optionsAudits=("Yep" "Nope") echo "Include audits?" select opt in "${optionsAudits[@]}"; do case $REPLY in 1) includeAudits=true; break ;; 2)…
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dynamic interactivity problem

I am trying to have two panels, the left showing a graphic and two locators, the right one a zoomed-in version in the area defined by the locators. I've tried ClearAll[mndpt]; mndpt = Compile[{{c, _Complex}, {maxiter, _Integer}}, Module[{z,…
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Interactively rotate a 3D plot

I was wondering how it is possible to interactively rotate a 3D plot as described in this video (if you decide from above or underneath or from right or left). I can generated a 3D plot in spyder or in a jupyter Notebook but after that it remains…
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Use main function in R

I've been using R for 4 months now, and I really hope there is a way to use main function as in other languages (C++, Python...) The main reason I want to do this is that all the variables I use in a R script are global variables that can…
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Haskell: How to write interactive interpreter on top of a State monad?

We're working on a model filesystem that uses a state monad internally. We have a type class with operations like these: class Monad m => FS m where isDirectory :: Path -> m Bool children :: Path -> m [Path] ... We're working on a…
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How does sympy work? How does it interact with the interactive Python shell, and how does the interactive Python shell work?

What happens internally when I press Enter? My motivation for asking, besides plain curiosity, is to figure out what happens when you from sympy import * and enter an expression. How does it go from Enter to calling __sympifyit_wrapper(a,b) in…
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Is there a way to make python become interactive in the middle of a script?

I'd like to do something like: do lots of stuff to prepare a good environement become_interactive #wait for Ctrl-D automatically clean up Is it possible with python?If not, do you see another way of doing the same thing?
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Benefits of using integer values for constants rather than numeric values (e.g. 1L vs 1) in R

In R source code, most (but not all) functions use integer values for constants: colnames <- function(x, do.NULL = TRUE, prefix = "col") { if(is.data.frame(x) && do.NULL) return(names(x)) dn <- dimnames(x) if(!is.null(dn[[2L]])) …
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Is it possible to build a interactive C shell?

I'm just wondering if this is possible using either (Python, Java or C)? I'm looking for something like IPython for Python.
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Plot zoom and locator in RStudio

Is there a way to enable locator() functionality in the RStudio plot zoom? This only works in the smaller window (default bottom right) of RStudio but when you click on a viewer already open as a separate window, no coordinates are…
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