[ESS] completion of colnames with spaces

[Andreas Leha]

Hi Martin,

Martin Maechler <maechler using stat.math.ethz.ch> writes:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 7:25 PM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit using gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Shouldn't be too difficult to add.
>
> That sounds great, thank you in advance!
> Note that in this context,  back quotes `abc`  and  double quotes
> "abc"  are equivalent ... just in case one looks easier or more
> logical (font locking?)
> to implement.
>

That was news to me.  Thank you.

Regards,
Andreas



> Martin
>
>>
>> I have opened a new issue here https://github.com/emacs-ess/ESS/issues/226 and
>> assigned myself as I plan for other completion enhancements pretty soon.
>>
>>
>>   Vitalie
>>
>>>> On Mon, Aug 24 2015 11:57, Andreas Leha wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>
>>> This is question / feature request about completion of colnames with
>>> spaces.  Is it possible to have backquotes inserted automatically when
>>> completing problematic names?  If not, could that be made possible?
>>
>>> Neither auto-complete nor company completion seem to do this right now.
>>
>>> As an example take the following data.frame with point at the '|':
>>
>>> tmp <- data.frame(`name with space`=1, b=2, check.names = FALSE)
>>> tmp$na|
>>
>>
>>> Upon completion (great that it works and offers even problematic names!)
>>> I get
>>
>>> tmp$name with space
>>
>>
>>> but it would be much more useful to actually get
>>
>>> tmp$`name with space`
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Andreas
>>
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