[ESS] Skeleton pair insert not working after upgrade.

[Marc Schwartz]

On Aug 27, 2009, at 12:21 PM, S. McKay Curtis wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I recently upgraded my Emacs and ESS using Vincent Goulet's very  
> convenient
> package and installer.  But now that I have upgraded, the skeleton  
> pair
> insert for the parenthesis "(" is not working in R files.  That is,  
> I have
> the following code in my .emacs file
>
> (setq skeleton-pair t)
> ;;(setq skeleton-pair-on-word t)
> (global-set-key (kbd "(") 'skeleton-pair-insert-maybe)
> (global-set-key (kbd "[") 'skeleton-pair-insert-maybe)
> (global-set-key (kbd "{") 'skeleton-pair-insert-maybe)
> (global-set-key (kbd "\"") 'skeleton-pair-insert-maybe)
> (global-set-key (kbd "<") 'skeleton-pair-insert-maybe)
>
> which, before upgrade, would automatically type a closing  
> parenthesis ")"
> every time I typed an opening parenthesis "(" [and would do the same  
> for the
> other characters "[", "{", etc.].  Now that I have upgraded, I do  
> not get a
> closing parenthesis after I type an open parenthesis when editing R  
> files,
> even though it works for other characters like "[".  Also, the  
> skeleton pair
> insert for "(" works in the R command buffer, just not in an R file.
>
> Any thoughts on how to fix this?
>
>
> Thanks
> McKay



Yep...I can confirm the behavior on OSX 10.5.8, however it is not just  
with Vincent's version of Emacs/ESS. I can replicate it here with my  
own Emacs 23 compiled directly from the Emacs cvs and also with  
Aquamacs downloaded from their site. Aquamacs is based upon Emacs 22,  
so this is not just with Emacs 23.

McKay, I presume that you are on OSX?  If so, have you installed the  
10.5.8 update or are you still on 10.5.7? I wonder if that update,  
which was pushed earlier this month on the 5th may have anything to do  
with this. There was also a security update (2009-004) on the 12th.

Is anyone seeing this on other OSs?

It also happens with a brace '{}' pair, where the closing brace is not  
automatically inserted.

This happens in ESS[S] mode, either when editing an R file, or when in  
an R chunk in a .Rnw file. In the LaTeX chunks all is well.

It all works properly in iESS [R] mode and if I disable ESS completely  
in my .emacs file and then open an R file or a .Rnw file, the behavior  
is correct.

It also works properly in Rd mode.

I see incomplete behavior when opening a Perl script file, where in  
that case (using CPerl mode), double and single quotes will be  
properly inserted, but parens, braces and brackets are not.

I am not sure why I had not noticed this until now and am scratching  
my head to figure it out. I have not changed anything in my .emacs and  
have not updated other emacs lisp packages that I load.

One thing I did note. If I revert to ESS 5.3.11 or 5.3.10 from 5.4,  
then the paren pairing happens OK in ESS[S] modes, but brace ('{}')  
pairing still does not.

I am confuzzled....I am not ready to say this is ESS itself yet,  
unless others on non-OSX systems are seeing it as well.

Regards,

Marc Schwartz