[ESS] disable _ to <- hot key

[Stephen Eglen]

Seb <spluque at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:01:46 -0800,
> Ron Burns <rrburns at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> > Perhaps this has been answered but I don't seem to able to set up a
> > search for _ and <- that returns anything useful.
> 
> > I would like to disable the hotkey _ (i.e underscore: shift key with
> > -/_) that inserts a <- and/or a hint how to efficiently type names
> > with an embedded underscore character (e.g xxx_yy).
> 
> Type '_' twice and ESS will give you the requested underscore.  That's
> surely better than disabling the shortcut entirely because one usually
> needs "<-" way more frequently than an underscore, but IIUC there's a
> variable that can easily be set via the customization interface if you
> *really* want to do that.
Yes, this is configurable; from the info 

   * ESS[S]: Pressing underscore ("_") once inserts " <- " (as before);
     pressing underscore twice inserts a literal underscore.  To stop
     this smart behaviour, add "(ess-toggle-underscore nil)" to your
     .emacs after ess-site has been loaded;


Stephen