[ESS] Re: [R] R commandline editor question
Ajay Narottam Shah
ajayshah at mayin.org
Fri May 27 13:47:19 CEST 2005
> well ESS has such a facility.
>
> However, I think Mathematica has a super scheme: unbalanced brackets
> show up
> in red, making them obvious.
>
> This is particularly good for spotting wrongly interleaved brackets, as
> in
>
> ([ blah di blah )]
>
> <note bracket closure is out of order>
>
> in which case both opening braces are highlighted in red: and the
> system won't
> accept a newline until the closures are all correctly matched.
>
> Would anyone else find such a thing useful?
>
> Could the ESS team make something like this happen?
ess is great, but I was asking about the R commandline. I tend to
write a lot of stuff on the fly at the R commandline.
Yes, colours are a great way to deal with this, and this feature
should ideally be in ESS.
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Ajay Shah Consultant
ajayshah at mayin.org Department of Economic Affairs
http://www.mayin.org/ajayshah Ministry of Finance, New Delhi
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