[ESS] Manually turn on ess script mode

Vitalie Spinu spinuvit.list at gmail.com
Sun Mar 6 21:31:30 CET 2011


Tyler Smith <tyler.smith at eku.edu> writes:

> Kasper Daniel Hansen <kasperdanielhansen at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> The standard for any major mode is to have a function like
>> MODENAME-mode to switch the mode of the buffer.  So I don't think ESS
>> has any leeway to choose this.  This is the same for any other major
>> mode.  Having said that, looking at ess-* function names is of course
>> sensible.
>>
>
> I really don't understand what you're trying to say. I'm not suggesting
> that the function name or the mode name be changed. I just suggest that

What Kasper probably tried to say is that ess-R-mode, ess-SAS-mode etc,
would be a bit more convenient. R-mode, SAS-mode look like not having
anything to do with ESS.

There is even `ess-R-mode-font-lock-keywords` variable which is already
using the above naming.

Vitalie.



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