[ESS] Introducing Polymode

[Vitalie Spinu]

Ok, I have solved this issue on polymode side, and tested with today's
trunk. Should be fine now.

    Vitalie

  >> Mathieu Basille <basille at ase-research.org>
  >> on Thu, 28 Mar 2013 20:32:16 -0400 wrote:

 > Le 03/28/2013 08:11 PM, Vitalie Spinu a écrit :
 >> 
 >> Hi Mathieu,
 >> 
 >> You are too much ahead of time.

 > Eheh, first time anyone tells me this. I have to admit it kind of feels good :)

 >> Eieio namespace cleanup happened
 >> recently in emacs sources, and object-name was substituted with
 >> eieio-object-name. The guys probably forgot to define an alias, or more
 >> likely they created an eieio-compat.el (or similar) package. I still
 >> have to check that out, but not in the next 2-3 days. You can look for
 >> it yourself of course, and if they created a compat package, just
 >> require it. There was a thread on that in february on emacs-devel.

 > Well it seems that I'm not too much ahead of Emacs knowledge, though. I already
 > had hard time understanding your message. But if you mean this thread [1], it's
 > even worse there, being mostly technical jargon -- and I thank them to keep this
 > on emacs-devel! In the end, I'm not quite sure what to do with it (a
 > eieio-custom.el is mentioned, but requiring it did not really improve the
 > situation). However, I can for sure wait a couple of days or more, so please
 > take as much time as needed to dig into this.

 > And just for the record, I'm using Emacs Snapshot from the Naquadah repository
 > [2], and I'm sure I'm not the only one Debian user doing this. However,

 > Thanks for your answer!
 > Mathieu.

 > [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-02/msg00199.html

 > [2] http://emacs.naquadah.org/

 >> 
 >> HTH,
 >> Vitalie
 >> 
 >> >> Mathieu Basille <basille at ase-research.org>
 >> >> on Thu, 28 Mar 2013 18:23:06 -0400 wrote:
 >> 
 >> > Dear Vitalie,
 >> 
 >> > It's great to hear from your efforts in Polymode! I just tried to use it on Rmd
 >> > files on Emacs Snapshot [24.3.50.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.2) of
 >> > 2013-03-25] on Debian. First I tried to simply add the following to my .emacs:
 >> 
 >> > (setq load-path (append '("/home/mathieu/.emacs-site/polymode/"
 >> >       "/home/mathieu/.emacs-site/polymode/modes") load-path))
 >> > (require 'poly-R)
 >> > (require 'poly-markdown)
 >> > (require 'poly-noweb)
 >> 
 >> > As stated in the above code, I downloaded (using git) Polymode in
 >> > /home/mathieu/.emacs-site/polymode/
 >> 
 >> > If I now visit a .Rmd file, I get this after startup:
 >> 
 >> > Error during redisplay: (jit-lock-function 1) signaled (void-variable
 >> > object-name)
 >> > Error during redisplay: (jit-lock-function 522) signaled (void-variable
 >> > object-name)
 >> 
 >> > And from time to time if I navigate in the file:
 >> 
 >> > polymode error: Symbol's value as variable is void: object-name
 >> 
 >> > I don't know if this is useful, but Emacs indicates (Markdown Rmd vl Wrap), as
 >> > compared to (Markdown vl Wrap) without Polymode. If I try a polymode function
 >> > (such as M-n C-n), I get this:
 >> 
 >> > equal: Symbol's value as variable is void: object-name
 >> > polymode error: Symbol's value as variable is void: object-name
 >> 
 >> > Appart of that, not much happened compared to regular Markdown mode. Shouldn't
 >> > it load R (minor) mode in R code chunks? I also tried to remove everything from
 >> > my .emacs, and use only the few lines above, with the exact same result. Am I
 >> > missing anything here?
 >> 
 >> > Thanks again a lot for your work on this!
 >> > Mathieu.
 >> 
 >> > Le 03/26/2013 02:26 PM, Vitalie Spinu a écrit :
 >> >>
 >> >> Hi All,
 >> >>
 >> >> I would like to announce a development version of new multi-major-mode
 >> >> called polymode. Source, screenshots and installation instructions are
 >> >> here:
 >> >>
 >> >> https://github.com/vitoshka/polymode>>    >>
 >> >> There is still some work to be done as it is not very stable as yet. I
 >> >> have just realized that I won't be able to pursue very active
 >> >> development for the weeks to come, so I decided to announce it right
 >> >> away. This includes some indentation issues and unstable font-lock in
 >> >> C++ submodes. C++R seems to work fine.
 >> >>
 >> >> Currently it has builtin supports for Rnw, Rmd, Rhtml, Rbrew, Rcpp, cppR
 >> >> and "live" R examples in Rd and ess-help buffers. Adding new polymodes
 >> >> is literally about 25 lines of declarations. See "modes" directory and
 >> >> particularly poly-R.el. Also look in test directory for test
 >> >> examples. The interface is not fully settled as yet and thus, not
 >> >> documented.
 >> >>
 >> >> There is also a default association with md extension. This basically
 >> >> means that as long as you have a proper declaration ```foo, and foo-mode
 >> >> function exists the chunk will be initialized with that mode.
 >> >>
 >> >> It would be really nice if enthusiastic people can try it out and report
 >> >> bugs/comments/suggestions, either directly to me, or preferably on the
 >> >> github bug tracker. But please read the words warning first;)
 >> >>
 >> >> Hopefully it will be useful to some people even at this stage.
 >> >>
 >> >> Vitalie
 >> >>
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