[ESS] indentation

[Rodney Sparapani]

Terry Therneau wrote:
>  My ess customizations (of which the most important is an indent level
>  of 4 --- old eyes need the help) stopped working with a machine
>  upgrade.
>  Old: Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
>  New: Ubuntu 8.10
>          ESS downloaded from a CRAN mirror (Iowa State)
>  The customizations are a block of lines in my .emacs file
>  (require 'ess-site)
>  (setq ess-tab-always-indent nil)
>  (setq ess-auto-newline nil)
>  (setq ess-indent-level 4)
>  (setq ess-brace-offset 4)
>  (setq ess-close-brace-offset 4)
>    etc
> 
> Here is the real puzzle: If I look at the customizations via   " M-x
>  customize-group RET ess" I see all of my values.  Each one says "this
>  has been changed outside" and gives my setting.
>  If I start a new buffer "test.R" however, they are not in effect.  The
>  buffer mode is marked as  (ESS [S] [none]), so S mode is being chosen.
> 
> Within the new buffer a query for the value "C-h v ess-indent-level"
>  gives the following text:
> 
>  ess-indent-level is a variable defined in `ess-cust.el'.
>  Its value is 2
>  Local in buffer temp.R; global value is 4
> 
>  Documentation:
>  *Indentation of S statements with respect to containing block.
>  You can customize this variable.
> 
> 
>  -----------------------------
>  Great -- I have set the global default, but it does not apply to
> any given file!
> 
> Any insights would be appreciated.
>    Terry Therneau
>

What were the working versions of ESS and emacs and what are the 
non-working versions (no Ubuntu package versions please)?

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