[ESS] Weird behaviour of assignment symbols with Emacs-24.1 (and ESS 12.04-4)
Chris Howden
chris at trickysolutions.com.au
Sat Jun 16 02:26:33 CEST 2012
Hi John,
I'm experiencing some 'weird' behaviour on a new emacs 24.1 installation
as well (using Vincent's package). I posted last week about it.
I'm currently flat chat getting an analysis done for a client with a
Monday deadline.
But when I have some time next week I'm going to have a look at some LISP
links I was kindly referred to, and also try installing a 23.3.1 build
from Vincent's archives. This is the build I have on my previous computer
and it works great. This way I can determine if it's the new build or my
new computer.
I'll report back to the list once I've had time to do it
Chris Howden B.Sc. (Hons) GStat.
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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Emacs 24, ESS and R/Sweave - 2 changes in behavior from
Emacs 23 (Marc Schwartz)
2. Weird behaviour of assignment symbols with Emacs-24.1 (and
ESS 12.04-4) (John Maindonald)
3. Weird behaviour of assignment symbols with Emacs-24.1 (and
ESS 12.04-4) (John Maindonald)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 06:28:45 -0500
From: Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at me.com>
To: Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com>
Cc: ESS-help <ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Subject: Re: [ESS] Emacs 24, ESS and R/Sweave - 2 changes in behavior
from Emacs 23
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Hi Vitalie,
Thanks. Here is mine:
########################
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
<<>>=
iris$Species
@
Here is some text
\end{document}
########################
Regards,
Marc
On Jun 14, 2012, at 4:00 AM, Vitalie Spinu wrote:
>
> Thanks for reports. Noweb is inherently broken and will be most likely
> replaced in the next version of ESS. I've already started working on a
> general literate programing frontend, available here:
> https://github.com/vitoshka/litprog .
>
> To avoid repeating mistakes in noweb I would like to have as many self
> contained reproducible examples as I can. So, if you experience
> problems with noweb, please send your snippets to me personally or to
this list.
>
> I can reproduce Carslav's example on emacs 24. Mark, can you please
> send a short self contained file with your problems?
>
> Thanks,
> Vitalie.
>
>>> "Carslaw, David" <david.carslaw at kcl.ac.uk> on Wed, 13 Jun 2012
>>> 21:40:41 +0100 wrote:
>
>> Thanks Marc. I too have related problems that would seem a good time
to mention (using Vincent Goulet's latest release for Windows based on
emacs 24.1).
>> Given a minimal example like this:
>
>> #############################################
>> \documentclass{article}
>
>> King's College London
>
>> \begin{document}
>> <<>>=
>> test <- data.frame(x = 1:3, y = 1:3)
>> @
>> \end{document}
>> ##############################################
>
>> The R code is shown as a string face (M-x Describe-face) and ends up
>> like this because of the ' in King's. I think there are other issues
>> with constructs like the quotes using backticks e.g. `backtick', which
also affects fontification.
>> These issues are not present in the emacs 23.4 I was previously using.
>
>> All the best
>
>> David Carslaw
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ess-help-bounces at r-project.org
>> [mailto:ess-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Marc Schwartz
>> Sent: 13 June 2012 21:21
>> To: ESS-help
>> Subject: [ESS] Emacs 24, ESS and R/Sweave - 2 changes in behavior
>> from Emacs 23
>
>> Hi all,
>
>> Greetings from useR at Vanderbilt in Nashville.
>
>> Having upgraded to Emacs 24 earlier this week, I began to notice some
>> behavioral changes from Emacs 23 when editing Sweave .Rnw files. I
>> spent some time isolating both problems and had the opportunity here
>> to discuss them with Rich Heiberger and Martin Maechler who suggested
that I post to the list.
>
>> For completeness:
>
>> 1. Running on a MacBook Pro with fully updated OSX Lion 2. Emacs 23
>> and 24 binaries from http://emacsformacosx.com/3. ess-12.04-4 4.
>> auctex-11.86
>
>> The first issue, which turns out to be my problem, is that for years, I
have had the following Emacs directive at the top of my .Rnw files:
>
>> % -*- mode: noweb; noweb-default-code-mode: R-mode; -*-
>
>> Now, in all honesty, I can't for the life of me recall the etiology
>> of this inclusion in my .Rnw templates. I have been using Emacs and
>> Sweave since circa
>> 2003 (R itself since circa 2001). Perhaps some of the grey-haired
>> folks like me whose recollection is better than my own can provide
>> some history, presuming that this was dealing with some multi-mode
issues in Emacs.
>
>> That all being said, this all worked fine through Emacs versions 21 and
23 on Windows, RH/Fedora Linux and OSX. That changed with 24.
>
>> For assistance purposes, if the above line is present, one gets an
error message:
>
>> "noweb mode removed"
>
>> and noweb font lock mode fails. Took me a while to figure out where
that was coming from.
>
>> Looks like this message comes from the noweb-mode.el file in ESS
>> AFAICS, around line 491, not from other Emacs sources. So it would
>> seem that something pertaining to noweb mode changed and Martin had
>> suggested that he recalled some recent communications regarding noweb
>> related code in Emacs 24 that might now conflict with the above
>> incantation. In either case, the above causes problems, is no longer
needed and perhaps in reality, has not been for some time.
>
>> The second issue, which is a bit more perplexing is a variation on a
>> problem that I have had for some time and I believe others have had
>> as well. The prior issue is that if one includes a "$" in a LaTeX
>> section of the file (eg. DataFrameName$ColumnName), for example
>> within a \Sexpr{} to return a scalar value, the presence of the "$"
>> kills the correct font lock coloration and representations (eg.
>> subscripts, etc.) for text that follows, until a following R code
>> chunk. That issue is easily avoided by having a preceding R code
>> chunk which does the more complicated manipulation of data and assigns
that to a scalar, suitably named, that is then included in the \Sexpr{}.
>
>> The new behavior in Emacs 24, is that if one includes the "$" in an R
>> code chunk, the following LaTeX content is not correctly represented.
>> In my case, all LaTeX section text turns a brownish color (eg. rather
>> than black) and any other TeX specific font sizes, etc. are lost. For
>> example, create a simple R chunk followed by some LaTeX mode text:
>
>> <<>>=
>> iris$Species
>> @
>
>> Some LaTeX mode text here
>
>> You may have to scroll the cursor through the lines of text to see the
effect.
>
>> Completely by accident, I found that if one adds a second "$" in that
>> R code chunk (eg. iris$Species$), such that there is now a pair of
>> "$"s, that seems to trigger a correction of the underlying situation
>> and the LaTeX section that follows is correctly colored/represented
>> as it should be. So this is a change in behavior in 24 and seems to
>> suggest that somehow the font lock mode is interpreting the "$"s as
>> an opening and closing pair of some kind of tag. This pairing
>> behavior seems to continue based upon either an odd or even number of
>> "$"s in the R chunk, thus iris$Species$$ fails, iris$Species$$$
succeeds, and so forth.
>
>> I am not sure if folks are aware of this second issue with Emacs 24
>> since the stable release is just out, but wanted to report my
>> observations. As noted, I did not observe this behavior with 23. If
>> you need more information, let me know.
>
>> Thanks for taking the time to read this.
>
>> Regards,
>
>> Marc Schwartz
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:27:25 +1000
From: John Maindonald <john.maindonald at anu.edu.au>
To: <ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Subject: [ESS] Weird behaviour of assignment symbols with Emacs-24.1
(and ESS 12.04-4)
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I have just now installed Vincent Goulet's latest
Emacs-24.1-modified-1.dmg for MacOS X, dated 11 June 2012.
If I type
a <- 2
into my R session, the assignment symbol promptly changes to blank space.
Once the command has been executed, the symbol reappears. This behaviour
happens whether the symbol is entered as <-, or by typing an underscore.
If I open a .R script file, the assignment symbols likewise appear as
blank space.
If I copy relevant code e.g. into this email message, the assignment
symbols magically reappear. Thus, the issue seems to be one of displaying
the symbol.
Has anyone else experienced this behaviour? I am guessing that something
in my .emacs file may be interacting with some feature of Emacs 24.1 to
cause the problem. Any suggestions on what I might check for?
John Maindonald email: john.maindonald at anu.edu.au
phone : +61 2 (6125)3473 fax : +61 2(6125)5549
Centre for Mathematics & Its Applications, Room 1194, John Dedman
Mathematical Sciences Building (Building 27) Australian National
University, Canberra ACT 0200.
http://www.maths.anu.edu.au/~johnm
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:33:30 +1000
From: John Maindonald <john.maindonald at anu.edu.au>
To: <ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Subject: [ESS] Weird behaviour of assignment symbols with Emacs-24.1
(and ESS 12.04-4)
Message-ID: <317BAF0B-0C5E-4B5D-9EDB-2A7BAF548397 at anu.edu.au>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
PS: I forgot to mention. I am using MacOS 10.7.4
I have just now installed Vincent Goulet's latest
Emacs-24.1-modified-1.dmg for MacOS X, dated 11 June 2012.
If I type
a <- 2
into my R session, the assignment symbol promptly changes to blank space.
Once the command has been executed, the symbol reappears. This behaviour
happens whether the symbol is entered as <-, or by typing an underscore.
If I open a .R script file, the assignment symbols likewise appear as
blank space.
If I copy relevant code e.g. into this email message, the assignment
symbols magically reappear. Thus, the issue seems to be one of displaying
the symbol.
Has anyone else experienced this behaviour? I am guessing that something
in my .emacs file may be interacting with some feature of Emacs 24.1 to
cause the problem. Any suggestions on what I might check for?
John Maindonald email: john.maindonald at anu.edu.au
phone : +61 2 (6125)3473 fax : +61 2(6125)5549
Centre for Mathematics & Its Applications, Room 1194, John Dedman
Mathematical Sciences Building (Building 27) Australian National
University, Canberra ACT 0200.
http://www.maths.anu.edu.au/~johnm
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