[ESS] Editing Rd files in Aquamacs Emacs (MacOS X)

[Jari Oksanen]

On 4 Jun 2007, at 18:47, Vincent Goulet wrote:

>> I had a closer look at the issue with these instructions. Indeed, 
>> 'M-x Rd-mode RET' works if I install ESS from the source. However, 
>> this fails with pristine Aquamacs Emacs saying [No match], although 
>> this is said to come with ESS. The difference may be indeed that 
>> essddr.elc is not included in Aquamacs.
>
> That's strange. I do have the file essddr.elc in Aquamacs 0.9.9d, and 
> I'm pretty sure I didn't modify the ess-mode folder in any way.
>
Assuming this is the place to look at:

/Applications/Aquamacs\ 
Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/site-lisp/edit-modes/ess-mode/lisp/

It was not there.

>> Better keep now that configuration that has
>>
>> (load "~/Library/ess-5.3.4/lisp/ess-site")
>>
>> in ~/.emacs file (which also seems to work: I didn't come to think 
>> that Mac would have a more exotic location).
>
> This location is deprecated. See 
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/PreferencesInAquamacs
>
Well, just didn't know that. Normal unixes don't have that kind of 
places, and I didn't come to think that Emacs in Mac would be different 
from all the other Emacses (refuse to use other kind of plurals) in the 
world. I'll try to learn.
>
Cheers, Jari Oksanen