[ESS] ess-eval-region ignore stata comments?
Paul Burkander
paul at burkander.com
Sun Aug 5 16:01:02 CEST 2012
wow that works very well - thank you! And I'm glad to have learned
about C-c C-c, which will definitely be a time saver.
Paul
On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 7:05 AM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> This is solved in the development versions (both svn and git).
>
> C-c C-c now skips the comments before evaluation, as it should be. C-c
> C-r (ess-eval-region) now removes oneline comments (both "//" and "/*")
> before sending code to process.
>
> Please try and let me know if it works for you.
>
> Best,
> Vitalie.
>
> >> Paul Burkander <paul at burkander.com>
> >> on Fri, 3 Aug 2012 16:13:25 -0400 wrote:
>
> > Stata supports multi-line comments, as in your first example, but I
> > habitually don't use them; my code follows your second example. For
> > me and my lack of lisp it's not so simple to pass a line over. Can
> > you suggest a quick fix?
>
> > I didn't know about C-c C-c - by the function name it looks useful,
> > but I get the following error:
> > ess-beginning-of-function: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil [2 times]
>
> > On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> >> Paul Burkander <paul at burkander.com>
> >> >> on Fri, 3 Aug 2012 12:20:04 -0400 wrote:
> >>
> >> > Is there a way to make ess-eval-region ignore stata comments?
> >> > If I have the following code as my region:
> >>
> >> > /* foo */
> >> > di "bar"
> >>
> >> > I get
> >> > . /* foo */
> >> > unrecognized command: / invalid command name
> >> > r(199);
> >>
> >> > .
> >> > . di "bar"
> >> > bar
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> But C-c C-c skips comments right? This should be the default.
> >>
> >> With ess-eval-region is a bit trickier. It's pretty easy to remove one
> >> liner, but considerably much more difficult to get rid of multiline
> >> comments.
> >>
> >> Does stata support multilne comments? That is, doe you need
> >>
> >>
> >> /* foo
> >> zoo
> >> */
> >>
> >> di "bar"
> >>
> >>
> >> or, just handling
> >>
> >>
> >> /* foo */
> >> /* zoo */
> >>
> >> di "bar"
> >>
> >> would be enough?
> >>
> >> Vitalie.
> >>
> >> > Which isn't terrible, since it at least gets to the display command.
> >> > However, if the comment is in a loop, it breaks the loop. Is there
> >> > any way to make ESS skip the commented line?
> >>
> >> > Thanks!
> >>
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