[ESS] Polymode is on MELPA

Andreas Leha andreas.leha at med.uni-goettingen.de
Mon Sep 15 15:13:03 CEST 2014


Very nice!  I am looking forward to such functionality for org->R !

More general question:
What is the problem with indirect buffers?  They seem to work nice in
org.
Will (have to) be replaced in other places (like inside org) as well?

Best,
Andreas



Phillip Lord <phillip.lord at newcastle.ac.uk> writes:
> Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> writes:
>>  >>> Stephen Eglen on Mon, 15 Sep 2014 09:27:04 +0100 wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>  > Curious: what are you going to replace indirect buffers with?
>>
>> Just use normal buffers and take care that changes from one buffer are
>> reflected in all others. Something akin to `linked-buffers` by Phil
>> Lord. This might end up in a more fruitfully approach as it would
>> potentially allow having different contents in each buffer. You would be
>> able to edit roxygen comments in R mode as an example.
>
>
> I'm very open to collaboration if you just want to use linked-buffers.
> It would be good not to have the code written twice.
>
> I've just put preliminary support in for org->el, which is quite
> interesting. It should make literate elisp without all having to pop up
> literate sections in a different buffer (which org-mode also implemented
> with indirect-buffers, I think).
>
> Phil
>
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