[ESS] proposal re: underscore, part 2
Vitalie Spinu
spinuvit at gmail.com
Mon Apr 9 19:24:36 CEST 2012
Hi,
It's a pity we cannot have non-ess users opinion here:)
>From the next version of ESS you will get smart SPC which will correct
whatever mess is before the cursor and also indent:
"foo_" into "foo <- "
"foo=" into "foo = "
"foo<-" into "foo <- "
and so on. Of course fully customized.
Originally I was thinking to implement a full set of smart operators,
but following Henning's suggestion it appeared to me that a very smart
SPACE should be pretty much enough for everything. It's also easier to
customize and considerably less intrusive.
Best,
Vitalie.
>>>> Jack Tanner <ihok at hotmail.com>
>>>> on Mon, 9 Apr 2012 15:11:40 +0000 wrote:
> Following up on whether to leave the underscore situation
> unchanged, I tallied up the mailing list responses (bottom of
> this message). Please pardon me if I misinterpreted anyone's
> thoughts.
> People seemed to rally around the compromise to create a new
> option to bind "<-" insertion to another key. This would satisfy
> my original request with respect to editing R buffers, but it
> would not help with editing BUGS / JAGS code, and it would not
> help ESS novices. If I could rebind smart-underscore and if it
> could be disabled for BUGS / JAGS altogether, that would help me,
> at least.
> Parenthetically, I agree that "<-" is the preferred style of
> writing assignment in R, and I use it in my own code. But I
> disagree that smart-underscore is a good way of teaching that.
> Henning Redestig points out that pasting code containing true
> underscores into an ESS R buffer with smart-underscore enabled
> will mess up the code. That seems like a serious bug, but it
> could perhaps be decoupled from this issue. Henning suggests to
> activate smart-underscore only if an underscore is followed by a
> space. This change would trigger the pasting bug less often than
> the status quo, but it will still snag legal identifiers such
> as "foo_".
> Here's my tally of the posts on this. Folks that seem to think
> that the status quo is problematic in some way:
> Vitalie Spinu
> Henning Redestig
> Chris Evans
> Jack Tanner
> Folks that are OK with the status quo, but would accept a new
> option to bind "<-" insertion to some other key:
> Rainer Krug
> Richard M. Heiberger
> Joshua Wiley
> Gerald Jean
> Folks that would rather see no changes:
> Brendan Halpin
> Rodney Sparapani
> Tim Hesterberg
> Martin Maechler
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