[ESS] ess using stata: Symbol's value as variable is void:, inferior-ess-font-lock-keywords

[renato corbetta]

Hello. I'm new to ESS and I'm having the same problem as Markus.
I get exactly the same error message.  The only difference
is that I cannot start a Stata process even after
starting an R process.  

I noticed on the Stata listserv that some people have been 
having the same problem, but there is no posted solution.

I have ESS 5.2.10 on GNU Emacs 21.3 on a Windows XP machine.
I followed the installation procedure step and by step, specifying
the PATH and modifying the _emacs file.  

I'm sorry for being so boneheaded, but can anyone help me out
with this?   

Thanks,

Renato

> Hello All: when I try to start Stata in ESS (both emacs and xemacs; see
> below) I get the error (from the Messages buffer):
>
> font-lock-eval-keywords: Symbol's value as variable is void:
> inferior-ess-font-lock-keywords
>
> However, if I first start an R process and then start Stata, the Stata
> process
> -- 
> Markus Jantti
> Abo Akademi University
> markus.jantti at iki.fi <https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help>
> http://www.iki.fi/~mjantti <http://www.iki.fi/%7Emjantti>
> starts as it should. 
>
> The workaround is of course obvious, but maybe this could be remedied.
>
> Am using ESS 5.2.6 on GNU Emacs 21.4.1 (i386-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit,
> Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2005-03-17 on trouble, modified by Debian
> both installed on a Debian testing. The same behavior appears using
> Xemacs and the ess package distributed with Debian xemacs.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Markus Jantti
> Abo Akademi University
> markus.jantti at iki.fi <https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help>
> http://www.iki.fi/~mjantti <http://www.iki.fi/%7Emjantti>

 
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