[ESS] underscore mapped to <-

[Brian Diggs]

On 11/4/2010 4:35 PM, Marc Schwartz wrote:
> On Nov 4, 2010, at 6:28 PM, claudia tebaldi wrote:
>
>> Dear all
>>
>> one of the R packages I use frequently has just been updated to a
>> version where many of the function names now contain the underscore
>> character. Every time I try to use one, ESS changes the underscore
>> into the assignment sign<-, which up until now I though was cool
>> (being an old user of R I often type the underscore for assignment
>> purposes). I'm not sure how to change the mapping of _ to <- or
>> otherwise get around this feature and be able to use those
>> functions.
>>
>> Thank you for your help!
>>
>> Claudia
>
> Claudia,
>
> Just hit the underscore key twice in succession and you will get the
> underscore character, rather than the assignment operator.

Another approach is the ess-toggle-underscore function.  You can run it 
per-buffer, or put

(ess-toggle-underscore nil)

in your init.el file to turn this off globally (which is the approach 
I've taken).

> HTH,
>
> Marc Schwartz

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Brian S. Diggs, PhD
Senior Research Associate, Department of Surgery
Oregon Health & Science University