[ESS] ess-r-args-show

Patrick Connolly p_connolly at slingshot.co.nz
Tue Aug 16 11:56:28 CEST 2011


On Mon, 15-Aug-2011 at 01:32PM -0500, Rodney Sparapani wrote:

|> Patrick Connolly wrote:
|> >Dear ESS genii,
|> >
|> >At some stage, I found this bit for my ~/.emacs file which I find very
|> >useful.
|> >
|> >
|> >;; Show function argument completion while editing R code and
|> >;; interacting with an inferior R process
|> >(define-key ess-mode-map [f5] 'ess-r-args-show)
|> >(define-key ess-mode-map [f6] 'ess-r-args-insert)
|> >(define-key inferior-ess-mode-map [f5] 'ess-r-args-show)
|> >(define-key inferior-ess-mode-map [f6] 'ess-r-args-insert)
|> >
|> >
|> >Being a fan of lazy typing, I find it arduous to press the F5 key
|> >after I've gone to all the bother of typing a function name and then
|> >an opening bracket.  My question is what would I need to add to the
|> >.emacs file so that the args appeared as though I'd pressed F5?  I
|> >seem to remember seeing that happen when a colleague was using Vincent
|> >Goulet's GNU Emacs Windows distribution.
|> >
|> >TIA
|> >
|> >
|> 
|> Hi Patrick:
|> 
|> Did you try something like this [prior to (require 'ess-site)]:
|> 
|> (setq ess-r-args-electric-paren t)

I have a line along the lines of 
(load "$ESSHOME/lisp/ess-site")
which I assume would do the same as (require....)

In any case, (setq ess-r-args-electric-paren t) makes no difference.

Perhaps something else conflicts with it.

Thanks for the suggestion anyway.



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