[ESS] Indentation level

[gerald.jean at dgag.ca]

Hello Martin,

thanks for looking into this,

ess-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch a écrit sur 2010/05/11 13:45:50 :

> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 16:32, Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa at mcw.edu> wrote:
>
> > On 05/11/10 09:11 AM, gerald.jean at dgag.ca wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> for me the default is 4 as well and setting it in whatever fashion has
not
> >> effect on the local buffer.
> >>
> >> ess-indent-level is a variable defined in `ess-custom.el'.
> >> Its value is 4
> >> Local in buffer DataPrep.q; global value is 2
> >>
> >> I setted it as recommanded by Rich and yes, I restarted Emacs.
> >>
> >> Gérald Jean
> >>
> >>
> > Hi Gerald:
> >
> > But the sources say 2 and that is what I see as well.  AFAICT, it
> > hasn't changed recently either.  Is everybody running 5.8?
> >
>
> Yes, the default is definitely 2 and has always been so.
> As R-core, we've set "our default" to 4, and indeed I have been
preferring
> that myself;
> but nonetheless, the ESS default has always been 2.
>
> One way to set it to 4 and change other things as well, is using
> what we have had in the "R Internals" (and previously "R Extensions")
manual
> for many years;
> e.g. from the Swiss (CH) CRAN mirror:
>
>     http://stat.ethz.ch/CRAN/doc/manuals/R-ints.html#R-coding-standards
> (about one page down):
>
>      ;;; ESS
>      (add-hook 'ess-mode-hook
>                (lambda ()
>                  (ess-set-style 'C++ 'quiet)

Setting "c-default-style" to "gnu" and commenting out the line
"(ess-set-style 'C++ 'quiet)" in my .emacs solved the problem, i.e.
"ess-indent-level" is now at 2, locally and globally.

>                  ;; Because
>                  ;;                                 DEF GNU BSD K&R C++
>                  ;; ess-indent-level                  2   2   8   5   4
>                  ;; ess-continued-statement-offset    2   2   8   5   4
>                  ;; ess-brace-offset                  0   0  -8  -5  -4
>                  ;; ess-arg-function-offset           2   4   0   0   0
>                  ;; ess-expression-offset             4   2   8   5   4
>                  ;; ess-else-offset                   0   0   0   0   0
>                  ;; ess-close-brace-offset            0   0   0   0
> 0
>
>           [.... other recommendatinos omitted here ...]
>
> and as others have said repeatedly on this thread:
> Yes, you should and I think *must* set this via adding to the
ess-mode-hook
> BTW: In the above Emacs code, most are comments showing you the diverse
> style settings,
> mentioning indeed that the default ("DEF") is at 2.
>
> Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
>
>

Thanks again,

Gérald Jean
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