[ESS] minor glitch switching from Xemacs to Gnu Emacs
John Fox
jfox at mcmaster.ca
Thu Jun 1 09:03:54 CEST 2006
Dear Rodney,
Which of these do you advise I use?
When I have a chance, I'll revise the document on my web site to
include instructions for Windows Emacs users. As I understand it, the
only variation will be to the name and location of the init file.
Regards,
John
On Wed, 31 May 2006 16:50:15 -0500
"Rodney Sparapani" <rsparapa at hpi.mcw.edu> wrote:
> Hi John:
>
> Your init.el file works for emacs as well, if we make the following
> changes. If it is correct
> to assume that these are valid modes that are just not available on
> my emacs:
>
> (defun pc-on ()
> "Turn on innocuous pc editing behaviours"
> (condition-case nil
> (progn
> (require 'pending-del)
> (when (featurep 'pending-del)
> (pending-delete-mode t)) ; can type over or delete
> selected text
> (require 's-region)
> (when (featurep 's-region)
> (s-region-bind-cua))) ; some Windows editing keys
> (error nil)))
>
> If not, then:
> (defun pc-on ()
> "Turn on innocuous pc editing behaviours"
> (if (featurep 'xemacs) (progn
> (require 'pending-del)
> (pending-delete-mode t) ; can type over or delete selected text
> (require 's-region)
> (s-region-bind-cua)))) ; some Windows editing keys
>
> I tested both with the latest EmacsW32 binary from CVS which is
> currently at 22.0.50.1.
> Other things to note... Emacs still uses the name ~/.emacs instead
> of ~/.xemacs/init.el. Both
> emacs and xemacs seem to need the HOME environment variable to be set
> to launch these
> files automatically. For emacs, the directory to unpack ESS into is
> C:\Program Files\Emacs\emacs\site-lisp
> Note that there is also a directory named C:\Program
> Files\Emacs\site-lisp
> that does NOT work.
>
> Rodney
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: John Fox [mailto:jfox at mcmaster.ca]
> Sent: Wed 5/31/2006 2:44 PM
> To: Rodney Sparapani
> Cc: ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [ESS] minor glitch switching from Xemacs to Gnu Emacs
>
>
>
> Dear Rodney,
>
> OK -- I've done this and the new init.el is now on my web site. (It
> would be helpful for someone to verify that the init file works
> properly with Emacs.)
>
> For this to be really useful, there should be instructions for using
> the init file with Emacs paralleling the instructions already there
> for
> using the init with XEmacs.
>
> Regards,
> John
>
> On Wed, 31 May 2006 13:02:44 -0500
> Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa at mcw.edu> wrote:
> > Richard M. Heiberger wrote:
> > > good move!
> > >
> > > You probably don't have font-lock mode on in the myfile.R buffer.
> > You can turn it
> > > on just this time with
> > > M-x font-lock-mode
> > > I always want it on so I have the line
> > >
> > > (global-font-lock-mode 1)
> > >
> > > in my .emacs file.
> > >
> >
> > Oh, that makes sense. xemacs doesn't need that, but emacs does.
> > Since
> > John's init.el was for xemacs, he wouldn't have included it. Maybe
> > we
> > can get him to add that so it will work for both. Something like:
> > ; xemacs has font-locking on by default, but not emacs
> > (if (not (featurep 'xemacs)) (global-font-lock-mode 1))
> >
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>
> --------------------------------
> John Fox
> Department of Sociology
> McMaster University
> Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
> http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/
>
>
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John Fox
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/
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