[ESS] stepping through code with C-c C-c

Vitalie Spinu spinuvit at gmail.com
Sat Dec 6 06:31:30 CET 2014


 >>> Andreas Leha on Fri, 5 Dec 2014 09:49:41 +0000 wrote:

 > I do have a related question.  Would it be possible to add support for
 > syntactic blocks (e.g. for-loops, apply, plyr, dplyr statements)?  This
 > is mostly equivalent to support for {} or () bounded blocks.

It's not really that simple as {}/() look-up. R's syntax is not that
uniform. We barely can make indentation right.

It would be possible when we have emacs based R parser. I looked into
Wisent 2 years ago but never got down to implementing anything. Recently
a friend of mine got interested in implementing it for didactic
reasons. So maybe sooner than later it will eventually happen.


  Vitalie



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