[ESS] ESS and font-lock support.
gerald.jean at dgag.ca
gerald.jean at dgag.ca
Mon Dec 20 14:51:27 CET 2010
Hello,
I agree with Martin statement and I apologize if I offended any of you with
my post, it certainly was not the intent. ESS and Emacs are such great
tools and I am so addicted to them that I'd have a hard time getting my
work done without them!
Gérald Jean
Conseiller senior en statistiques,
VP Actuariat et Solutions d'assurances,
Desjardins Groupe d'Assurances Générales
télephone : (418) 835-4900 poste (7639)
télecopieur : (418) 835-6657
courrier électronique: gerald.jean at dgag.ca
"We believe in God, others must bring Data."
W. Edwards Deming
ess-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch a écrit sur 2010/12/18 11:29:48 :
> >>>>> gerald jean <gerald.jean at dgag.ca>
> >>>>> on Fri, 17 Dec 2010 11:28:24 -0500 writes:
>
> > Hello Rich, thanks a lot for your comments, I had not
> > looked at "ess-font-lock.el" close enough to notice de
> > different font locking functions. I just copied one of
> > those functions to my .emacs file, renamed it and adjusted
> > to colors of my liking. I'll play around a little bit
> > with them to see what I do prefer.
>
> One further note about your exchange with the Emacs list, and
> their recommendations / notes about a possible bug in ESS:
>
> They mentioned that it would be a bug if we did load
> ess-font-lock.el *and* execute the font-lock setting options
> automatically.
> Note that we do *NOT* do that, and BTW, I have never even made
> any use of ess-font-lock.el myself.
> That file has been there for the convenience of some, and should
> really rather be considered "demo" / "teaching example" rather than
> part of ESS. Note that it has nothing to do with ESS per se
> as indeed, it changes font faces "everywhere".
> If you look into the file, you see that ESS is really nowhere
> used, the only thing "ESS" is the file name and the function
> names.
>
> Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
>
> > Thanks again,
>
> > Gérald Jean Conseiller senior en statistiques, VP
> > Actuariat et Solutions d'assurances, Desjardins Groupe
> > d'Assurances Générales télephone : (418) 835-4900 poste
> > (7639) télecopieur : (418) 835-6657 courrier électronique:
> > gerald.jean at dgag.ca
>
> > "We believe in God, others must bring Data."
>
> > W. Edwards Deming
>
> > ess-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch a écrit sur 2010/12/17
> > 10:44:24 :
>
> >> Gérald Jean
> >>
> >> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Rodney Sparapani
> >> <rsparapa at mcw.edu>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> > On 12/17/10 07:42 AM, gerald.jean at dgag.ca wrote: > SNIP
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > (require 'ess-site) >> (require 'ess-font-lock) >>
> >> (ess-font-lock-db) ;; This single function caused the
> >> problem.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> ess-font-lock-db is one of a series of color schemes. I
> >> wrote several
> > and
> >> placed them in ess-font-lock.el . I recommend that you
> >> write your own ess-font-lock-gj, based on the functions
> >> in ess-font-lock.el, and use that in your .emacs instead
> >> of the ess-font-lock-db. I would be happy to add your
> >> function as an additional option to ess-font-lock.el,
> >> just like I added David's some time ago. As you can
> >> guess from the comments in the file, I normally use
> >> ess-font-lock-rmh. If I have more
> > than
> >> one open emacs instance (for example as administrator in
> >> one of them), then I
> > might
> >> use another one so I can visually distinguish them.
> >>
> >> Rich
> >>
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> >>
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