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Re: ESS "highlighting" turned off .. {Re: [R] Tidying up code ...}
by Peter Dalgaard
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Martin Maechler wrote:
>>>>>> "PD" == Peter Dalgaard <P.Dalgaard@...> >>>>>> on Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:52:15 +0200 writes: >>>>>> > > PD> Martin Maechler wrote: > >> I strongly agree with your last paragraph, > >> and I have always thought that we should recommend using > >> R-aware editors rather than dump() nowadays ... > >> but then I thought that I've been biased at all times, being a > >> co-developer of ESS, authoring its M-x ess-fix-miscellaneous > >> (and more), and also the author of a (non public) Emacs lisp > >> file called 'R-stylepolice.el' as early as in 1999..... > > > PD> BTW: Has there been any progress on turning the highlighting _off_ in > PD> iESS and transcript mode? The highlighted "for" and "in" make me crazy... > > we are really getting off-topic... > and so I am -- as an exception -- cross-posting to ESS-help > but > - I don't remember any feature-request of that kind, > but that may well just expose my fading long-time memory > I think you said "Oh yes, that is really embarrassing" last time I mentioned it.... > - you can always use M-x font-lock-mode > which toggles font-locking ("highlighting"). > > I should probably hook that in... > - What I would want is font-locking in iess- and transcript-mode, > just not to highlight 'for' and 'in' (and a few more), but > I'd like to keep the string and other font-locking. > IIRC, that is simple in principle, but needs a bit of > tedious work in practice. > I'd avoid that and just font-lock the command line . There's really no consistent way of telling how to fontify the output of an arbitrary line of R . (Or not fontify it at all, but switching the colour of the command line would be nice --- boldface is a bit useless if you've already switched the font to courier 18 bold) -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard@...) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ ESS-help@... mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help |
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Re: ESS "highlighting" turned off .. {Re: [R] Tidying up code ...}
by Martin Maechler
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>>>>> "PD" == Peter Dalgaard <P.Dalgaard@...>
>>>>> on Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:32:16 +0200 writes: PD> Martin Maechler wrote: >>>>>>> "PD" == Peter Dalgaard <P.Dalgaard@...> >>>>>>> on Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:52:15 +0200 writes: >>>>>>> >> PD> Martin Maechler wrote: >> >> I strongly agree with your last paragraph, >> >> and I have always thought that we should recommend using >> >> R-aware editors rather than dump() nowadays ... >> >> but then I thought that I've been biased at all times, being a >> >> co-developer of ESS, authoring its M-x ess-fix-miscellaneous >> >> (and more), and also the author of a (non public) Emacs lisp >> >> file called 'R-stylepolice.el' as early as in 1999..... >> >> PD> BTW: Has there been any progress on turning the highlighting _off_ in PD> iESS and transcript mode? The highlighted "for" and "in" make me crazy... >> >> we are really getting off-topic... >> and so I am -- as an exception -- cross-posting to ESS-help >> but >> - I don't remember any feature-request of that kind, >> but that may well just expose my fading long-time memory >> PD> [R-help snipped] PD> I think you said "Oh yes, that is really embarrassing" last time I PD> mentioned it.... aah... so indeed there's been problem of fading memory.. >> - you can always use M-x font-lock-mode >> which toggles font-locking ("highlighting"). >> PD> I should probably hook that in... yeah maybe.. >> - What I would want is font-locking in iess- and transcript-mode, >> just not to highlight 'for' and 'in' (and a few more), but >> I'd like to keep the string and other font-locking. >> IIRC, that is simple in principle, but needs a bit of >> tedious work in practice. as I found that's not really been true. The next version (5.3.9) of ESS will no longer fontify any such keywords in S- and R-mode, but continue to fontify other things. All functional changes are localized to lisp/ess-cust.el so you could replace your by the one from the ESS-devel svn repository, https://svn.r-project.org/ESS/trunk/lisp/ess-cust.el (and do not forget to also remove ess-cust.elc if you have one in your installed lisp/ !). PD> I'd avoid that and just font-lock the command line . There's really no PD> consistent way of telling how to fontify the output of an arbitrary line PD> of R . (Or not fontify it at all, but switching the colour of the PD> command line would be nice --- boldface is a bit useless if you've PD> already switched the font to courier 18 bold) I agree that an arbitrary line of R output cannot be fontified consistently. OTOH, I'd guess that 98% of my R output is very nicely fontified, and I'd not want to miss that, particularly not when I'm demo-ing R (using ESS). Ideally, we'd have more customization here, and users could customize what parts should be fontified and what not. I agree e.g., that you (and sometimes I as well) might not want to fontify strings in *R* / and *.Rout. I don't have time to go there for the moment, but patches (from people who know about emacs 'custom' things) are very welcome, and for now I am happy that I've solved the one part I had agreed to be embarassing. Martin ______________________________________________ ESS-help@... mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help |
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