[ESS] Polymode is on MELPA

Andreas Leha andreas.leha at med.uni-goettingen.de
Mon Sep 15 02:51:37 CEST 2014


Hi Vitalie,

Oh, what a shame.  I had this on my todo list for a long time now,
because 'what works best for me now' definitely would benefit from
polymode quite a bit.

But thanks a lot for your very fast (as usual) response!

Best,
Andreas


Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> writes:
> Org mode is not really tested. I included it as a proof of concept. It
> worked for me but admittedly with occasional stallings as you described.
>
> The work on polymode got stuck a bit as Emacs folks strongly discourage
> inderect buffer usage. So I will have to remove indirect buffers from
> the picture. This will solve all the font-locking problems as the one
> you have described.
>
> I suggest that you stick with what you know works best for now.
>
>    Vitalie
>
>  >>> Andreas Leha on Sun, 14 Sep 2014 23:38:02 +0100 wrote:
>
>  > Hi Vitali,
>
>  > Finally, I got round to give this a try.  I can't get polymode to load,
>  > though.
>
>  > I have an org mode file and do M-x ploy-org-mode and what I get is a
>  > message in the minibuffer saying 'Not enabling jit-lock: it does not
>  > work in inderect buffer' and emacs is unresponsive, so that it does not
>  > react to C-G and I have to kill it.
>
>  > I get the same using emacs -Q loading only org-mode, ess and poly-mode.
>
>  > This is on
>  > - OS X 10.9.4
>  > - GNU Emacs 24.4.50.1
>  > - poly-mode from git
>  > - Org-mode version 8.2.6 (if important)
>
>  > Any suggestions?
>
>  > Thanks,
>  > Andreas
>
>  > Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> writes:
>  >> >>> Andreas Leha on Wed, 14 May 2014 23:13:15 +0100 wrote:
>  >> 
>  >> > Hi Vitalie,
>  >> > Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> writes:
>  >> 
>  >> [...]
>  >> 
>  >> > I am in the same position as Grant.  And I do not want to wait for
>  >> > the docs ;-)
>  >> 
>  >> The docs are for developers and people who want to understand how it
>  >> works. Users can start right away.
>  >> 
>  >> > What is still not obvious to me: Is it a
>  >> > 'multiple-modes-in-the-same-buffer-mode' or is it a literate
>  >> > programming tool (with weaving/export functionality).  Or both?
>  >> 
>  >> It is an interface that puts all together. First, it manages multiple
>  >> normal emacs modes in the same buffer transparently for the
>  >> user. Second, it makes literate programming tools (pandoc, knitr,
>  >> sweave, pdflatex, org-mode exporter etc) readily available in the
>  >> polymode buffers.
>  >> 
>  >> > Basically, I also have a more specific follow-up question.  If
>  >> > polymode tries to play well with 'the plethora of literate
>  >> > programming tools out there', does it integrate with orgmode?  And if
>  >> > so, to what extent?  Are the mode switching capabilities available in
>  >> > orgmode documents already?
>  >> 
>  >> Orgmode is there. There is even a screenshot on the main page. I didn't
>  >> test it much as I am not using orgmode for literate programming, but it
>  >> seems to work. Orgmode exporting facilities are not yet encapsulated
>  >> into a polymode exporter, but you can always call org exporter directly
>  >> from org code span.
>  >> 
>  >> Vitalie
>  >> 
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