[ESS] ess-r-args-show SOLVED

[Felix Andrews]

Thanks Patrick. I was indeed labouring under the same misapprehension
as you. I thought if I did M-x R from a .R buffer it would be
sufficiently "associated". One ess-eval-line kicks it off, as you
said.

Cheers
Felix

On 19 August 2011 19:23, Patrick Connolly <p_connolly at slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> On Mon, 15-Aug-2011 at 08:22PM +0200, Sven Hartenstein wrote:
>
> |> Hi,
> |>
> |> not an answer to your question, but you might like r-autoyas, which
> |> inserts the arguments as a yasnippet.
> |>
> |> Details: http://www.svenhartenstein.de/Software/R-autoyas
> |> Screencast of old version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLJPorf2LBE
>
> I had to wait until everything quietened down before I could hear what
> what that Youtube clip was about.  Very low volume.  Looks like it
> doesn't do anything we can't do with 'ess-r-args-insert and then a bit
> of Emacs editing.  But thanks for the suggestion and to Stephen,
> Michael, Felix and Rodney for other suggestiions.
>
>
> I think I eveentually worked it out.  The DOS file thing was a
> red-herring.  The important thing was the associating the .R file with
> a *R* buffer.  Someone mentioned it, but I wasn't aware of what was
> necessary to do so.  I thought that if I opened a .R file from within
> the same Emacs session I'd used to begin R that would happen.  Not so.
>
> I make use of this line I have in my .emacs file
>
> (global-set-key [f1] 'ess-eval-line)
>
> If I press the F1 key from any line in the .R file, there's an attempt
> to run that "command" in the *R* buffer, in the process associating
> the .R file with that buffer.  Anyone else who hasn't got it to work
> might be under the same misapprehension I was under.
>
>
> For the record, what works in my .emacs file in a Fedora 15 box is
>
> (load "~/local/ess-5.14/lisp/ess-site")
>  (require 'ess-eldoc)
> (setq ess-r-args-electric-paren t)
> (add-hook 'inferior-ess-mode-hook 'ess-use-eldoc)
>
>
> That has it working in both .R and *R* buffers.
>
>
> HTH
>
>
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