[ESS] Melpa got me now. What you say about ess-smart-underscore ?
Vitalie Spinu
@p|nuv|t @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Sat Apr 4 11:52:42 CEST 2015
My personal opinion is that no smart operators, nor even smart
underscore should be part of ESS. It's a task for specialized packages.
Unfortunately, to the best of my knowledge, there are no satisfactory
solutions out there as yet.
I have recently picked up the dormant key-combo project. It needs quite
serious facelifting but nevertheless does a good job of speeding up
%foo% operators for me. My hope is to put it up to standards within a
couple of months.
Vitalie
>>> Paul Johnson on Fri, 3 Apr 2015 22:00:29 -0500 wrote:
> I finally got Melpa to work. I've tried a lot of packages in the last 2 days :)
> I found ess-smart-underscore and I think I like it. I think I wish
> you'd put it into ESS itself. Have you thought about it?
> Without smart underscore, I still get a lot of accidental <- when I want _.
> I watch the students in the lab here learning to use ESS/Emacs and the
> two most frustrating keyboard things for them are 1) the arrow keys
> don't work the way the expect and 2) variables with underscores in
> them are very difficult to type.
> To anticipate one counter argument, changing the behavior of _ will
> inconvenience the people who have gotten used to the double _.
> However, remember that the underscore was a forbidden character (was
> assignment in S) and most of us who are really old still get a
> creepy-crawley feeling when we see underscores in variable and
> function names. So, if you install smart underscore, you reduce the
> discomfort by 1/2 by reducing the number of times they have to type
> underscore.
> pj
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