[ESS] Highlighting of functions, variables, etc.

[Martin Maechler]

On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 10:52 PM, Sebastien Vauban <sva-news at mygooglest.com>
wrote:

> Vitalie Spinu wrote:
> > Ista Zahn on Wed, 1 Oct 2014 11:00:46 -0400 wrote:
> >> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Sebastien Vauban wrote:
> >>
> >>> As you can see on http://screencast.com/t/q8bodLKs, most of the
> >>> symbols in the code are black-on-white.
> >>>
> >>> Do I miss some config to have more highlighting ("if/else",
> >>> "return", differences between functions and vars, etc.) or is it the
> >>> current state?
> >>
> >> See http://ess.r-project.org/Manual/ess.html#Highlighting and the
> >> variable ess-R-font-lock-keywords
> >
> > There are also Font-Lock ESS and iESS sub-menues which you can use to
> > select the keywords and save to your custom file.
>
> OK, I've put this in my .emacs:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>   (setq ess-R-font-lock-keywords
>         '((ess-R-fl-keyword:modifiers . t) ; default
>           (ess-R-fl-keyword:fun-defs . t) ; default
>           (ess-R-fl-keyword:keywords . t) ; default
>           (ess-R-fl-keyword:assign-ops . t) ; default
>           (ess-R-fl-keyword:constants . t) ; default
>           (ess-fl-keyword:fun-calls . t)
>           (ess-fl-keyword:numbers . t)
>           (ess-fl-keyword:operators . t)
>           (ess-fl-keyword:delimiters . t)
>           (ess-fl-keyword:= . t)
>           (ess-R-fl-keyword:F&T . t)))
>
>   (setq inferior-R-font-lock-keywords
>         '((ess-S-fl-keyword:prompt . t) ; default
>           (ess-R-fl-keyword:messages . t) ; default
>           (ess-R-fl-keyword:modifiers . t) ; default
>           (ess-R-fl-keyword:fun-defs . t) ; default
>           (ess-R-fl-keyword:keywords . t) ; default
>           (ess-R-fl-keyword:assign-ops . t) ; default
>           (ess-R-fl-keyword:constants . t) ; default
>           (ess-fl-keyword:matrix-labels . t) ; default
>           (ess-fl-keyword:fun-calls . t)
>           (ess-fl-keyword:numbers . t)
>           (ess-fl-keyword:operators . t)
>           (ess-fl-keyword:delimiters . t)
>           (ess-fl-keyword:= . t)
>           (ess-R-fl-keyword:F&T . t)))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> and things are much better. Thanks.
>
> Any reason not to put font-lock to its max by default?
>

​Oh, yes!!    Taste for one  (but yes,   "de gustibus non est
disputandum!").
Martin
​


>
> Best regards,
>   Seb
>
> --
> Sebastien Vauban
>
> ______________________________________________
> ESS-help at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help
>
>

	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]