[ESS] Skeleton pair insert not working after upgrade.

[Vitalie S.]

On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:19:07 +0200, S. McKay Curtis  
<smcurtis at stat.washington.edu> wrote:

> Marc,
>
> Misery loves company, so I'm glad you were able to replicate my troubles!
>
> I am having the problem on Windows XP.
>
> I'm not an Emacs guru, but the file ess-mode.el contains this statement
>
>   (define-key ess-mode-map "("  ;; allow to toggle after customization:
>     (if ess-r-args-electric-paren 'ess-r-args-auto-show  
> 'self-insert-command))
>
ess-r-args-auto-show  uses (insert "(") to trigger  
(skeletion-pair-insert-maybe nil) which is bound globally to "(". But in  
emacs 23 that does not work any more.

So, just as a quick fix :

  (define-key ess-mode-map (kbd "(") '(lambda () (interactive)
					(skeleton-pair-insert-maybe nil)
					(ess-r-args-show)))


> which looks like it redefines the parenthesis.  Do the lines of code
> above negate what I have in my .emacs file?
>
> Puzzled,
> McKay
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Marc Schwartz<marc_schwartz at me.com>  
> wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
>
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