[ESS] R function arguments tips

Gregor Gorjanc gregor.gorjanc at bfro.uni-lj.si
Tue Aug 28 08:09:57 CEST 2007


Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen <at> damtp.cam.ac.uk> writes:
>  > I agree with this, it would be even more useful for the ARGS to
>  > persist until ')' closes the function call (or until '(' opens a
>  > nested function call...). I only seem to be able to remember one
>  > argument at a time...
> 
> What you need is ess-eldoc.el -- it is shipped with ESS 5.3.5 but not
> turned on by default, as it requires GNU Emacs 22.   If you have GNU
> Emacs 22, then add
...
> I'd be interested to hear from users who try ess-eldoc, and who have
> GNU Emacs 22 running.

Works like a charm on my Ubunutu machine with latest ESS! Thank you Stephen 
for this. May I suggest to add this to the documentation in file essd-r-args.el 
or perhaps even better make it default for GNU Emacs 22.

I hope this will also be available in *R* buffer.

Regads, Gregor




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