[ESS] How does the ess-function-outline-file work?

[Patrick Connolly]

On Fri, 08-Jul-2005 at 12:13PM +0200, Martin Maechler wrote:

|> >>>>> "Henrik" == Henrik Andersson <h.andersson at nioo.knaw.nl>
|> >>>>>     on Fri, 08 Jul 2005 10:05:16 +0200 writes:
|> 
|>     Henrik> I updated to the latest ESS via svn five minutes ago
|>     Henrik> When I open an file in ESS[S] mode, and type "C-c f"
|>     Henrik> nothing happens...
|> 
|>     Henrik> C-h f ess-f TAB reveals:
|> 	    ----
|>     Henrik> ess-find-dump-file-other-window ess-find-exec
|>     Henrik> ess-find-exec-completions ess-find-help-file
|>     Henrik> ess-find-rterm ess-fix-EQ-assign ess-fix-comments
|>     Henrik> ess-fix-dot ess-fix-dot-1 ess-fix-dot-more
|>     Henrik> ess-fix-miscellaneous ess-flatten-list
|>     Henrik> ess-flatten-list-1 ess-force-buffer-current
|> 
|>     Henrik> No ess-function-outline as far as I can see.
|> 
|> 
|>     Henrik> Strange...
|> 
|> No, not really strange.  
|> 
|> 1) The function is called ess-insert-function-outline;
|>    [ Patrick had been asking about the corresponding *variable* 
|>      with name ess-function-outline ]
|> 
|> 2) "C-c f" is not activated by default since a good Emacs
|>    package is not allowed to set any "C-c <character>" key
|>    settings  {they are reserved for user-private settings}.
|>    But I concluded from Patrick's e-mail that he had found the
|>    hacky function  (ess-add-MM-keys)   -- guess who MM is --

That's what I was missing.  I had that commented out while I was using
Emacs before I installed ESS.

Thanks Martin.  I can stop digging now.


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