[ESS] r-related question: editing NAMESPACEd functions in packages

[Vitalie Spinu]

>>
>> ess-developer-packages can be 'all, nil or a list of strings. Should
>> the default be 'all or nil?
>
> The question is what happens when ess-developer-packages is a list of
> strings: does it search through all the environments and replaces all
> occurrences of the function, or does it stop after the first? In which order
> does it search - in the order given, or in the R search order? Should be
> configurable as well.
>

I was thinking to replace only the first occurrence in the order given
by ess-developer-package. How many times do you need to work on two
packages with the same function  and you would also like to replace
them at once?

>>
>> Or may be 'all not at all:) Actually risk
>> of confounding would be minimal if ess-eval-function would explicitly
>> message the place of assignment.
>>
>> I will look into the implementation, since I would like to have
>> something of this kind in my personal setup at least.
>
> Brilliant - this would be a *very* useful feature.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rainer
>
>
>>
>> Vitalie.
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