[ESS] no color on functions that are R built in like "lm" or "mean"

[Paul Johnson]

Sorry, this got sent as I was re-organizing. Now I see it is better to
just ask simply:

What words are colorized in Emacs/ESS on your system? I just see a few...

And:

If you wanted to get color on functions like "lm" "mean" "sd" how
would you do it?

pj

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I haven't thought about color-coding of kewords in Emacs/ESS in a long
> time. A student pointed out something that seems different than I
> remember.
>
> Didn't Emacs with font lock have coloring for common R functions like
> c, rep, and so forth?
>
> Here are the colors I see now in Emacs ESS
>
> 1. A few functions are colorized.
> The word "library" is in turquoise.  As far as I can tell, it is the
> only function whose name is colorized.
>
>
> 1. all comments in red
>
>
> 3. The left hand side is blue when defining a function.. I mean, if I type
>
> purble <- function(xy){
>     mean(x)
> }
>
> The word purple is purple and function is blue.
>
> 4. Strings--things in quotes, are purple.
>
> I still have the awful/frustrating behavior that a comment like
>
> ## I'm frustrated this does not work
>
> treats the part after the single quote as the beginning of a character
> string and everything after the "'" turns purple, until another "'" is
> found.
>
> But, I digress.
>
> In th old days, weren't there standard colors for common R functions
> like lm, rep, and others?
>
> The students asked me to installl Notepad++ with NPPTOR on the lab
> systems, along with some guy's "language coloring" syntax file.
>
>
> But I remember the old days when the highlighting in Emacs/Ess was
> more prolific. Am I just remembering it wrong?
>
> My system is Debian with:
>
> emacs                                        23.4+1-3
> ess                                          12.04-4-1
>
> and the .emacs file has
>
> (global-font-lock-mode t) ; turn on syntax highlight
>
> and a lot of other crap in it:  If I am not seeing the colors you do
> see, then it probably means I've loaded some crap that breaks
> highlighting.
>
> (setq text-mode-hook (quote (turn-on-auto-fill text-mode-hook-identify)))
>
>
> pj
>
> --
> Paul E. Johnson
> Professor, Political Science    Assoc. Director
> 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504     Center for Research Methods
> University of Kansas               University of Kansas
> http://pj.freefaculty.org            http://quant.ku.edu



-- 
Paul E. Johnson
Professor, Political Science    Assoc. Director
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504     Center for Research Methods
University of Kansas               University of Kansas
http://pj.freefaculty.org            http://quant.ku.edu