[ESS] ESS Editing Mode

[Rodney Sparapani]

On 01/14/10 11:21 AM, David Neu wrote:
>
> Hi Rodney,
>
>> what dynamite editing features do you like?
> I'm not looking for any dynamite editing features, I'm just trying to
> isolate the standard keyword, variable, comment etc. highlighting and
> indentation support that most Emacs programming language modes
> including ESS support.
>

Indentation is a nice feature.  But, that and the syntax highlighting 
are very language dependent.  In particular, the syntax highlighting has 
quite good sensitivity/specificity for SAS, but not so much for R/S+ and 
Stata.  Like I said, this is not where ESS power is IMHO.  And 
improvements to syntax highlighting are not just around the corner since 
it is hellish to program.  I'm praying for a better approach RSN.  Maybe 
something like the semantic package, that actually works, incorporated 
directly into the guts of all emacsen (and that doesn't require any 
changes to ESS source code; clearly I'm delusional).

Rodney