[ESS] M-n s is undefined

[Christopher W Ryan]

I value flexibility. And I do hope to learn Rmarkdown and knitr and
devise a personal workflow for them.  But in the meantime, ESS with
polymode has hobbled my work.

> If you don't like woven/exported postfixes please customize
> polymode-weave-output-file-format
> and polymode-exporter-output-file-format.

The documentation for how polymode works in ESS seems a bit thin and
scattered.  For example, where is the above documented, besides in
this email conversation?  Is there a well-organized manual somewhere,
that I just can't find? I would be happy to read it.

One or more screencasts, as suggested by Paul Johnson, would be wonderful.

Thanks.

--Chris Ryan

On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 8:30 AM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit using gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> I don't understand what do you mean by "right" thing. Polymode has plenty of
> weavers and exporters. You are asked only once per file for what you
> want. That's a small price to pay for the flexibility and having one key for
> everything. Sweave workflow that you are used to is only one use pattern of
> many. There is a way to set the default weaver/exporter pragmatically but the
> mechanism will change in the near future so I am not promoting it at the moment.
>
> If you don't like woven/exported postfixes please customize
> polymode-weave-output-file-format and polymode-exporter-output-file-format.
>
> Also it looks like you are not using handy completion mechanisms. Consider using
> ido-ubiquitous, helm or ivy to enhance minibuffer completion. You should not
> need to type or guess "pdf" to select the option.
>
>  Vitalie
>
>>> On Tue, Jun 28 2016 17:06, Christopher W. Ryan wrote:
>
>> Still struggling.
>
>> Do I have to alter my .emacs file, as described here:
>
>> https://github.com/vspinu/polymode/blob/master/readme.md
>
>> When I did that, I got some response from M-n w and from M-n e while working
>> with an .Rnw file.  Namely, I was asked for name of weaver from the former, and
>> name of exporter from the latter.  I had to guess. Then from the exporter, I was
>> asked export to what?  Again I guessed, typing PDF.  End result was several new
>> files, the usual .tex, .aux, and .log files, and a .pdf file but with [woven]
>> and/or [woven][exported] in the file name.  All very cumbersome.
>
>> How do I arrange things so that emacs/ess will automatically "do the right
>> thing" with .Rnw files, as it did before?
>
>> Barring that, is an older, pre-polymode version of Vince's emacs/ess still
>> available for download?
>
>> Thanks.
>
>> --Chris Ryan
>
>> Vitalie Spinu wrote:
>>>
>>> There are 4 primary keys in polymode
>>>
>>>    https://github.com/vspinu/polymode#basic-usage>
>>> as it doesn't struggle to assign a key to every export/weave format.
>>>
>>>
>>>   Vitalie
>>>
>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Jun 26 2016 23:04, Christopher W. Ryan wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks.  I'll admit I'm having some trouble finding straightforward
>>>> documentation on how to simply use polymode/ESS.  Best I've found so far
>>>> is this:
>>>
>>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/ess-help/2014-May/009926.html>
>>>> from which I infer that M-n e might take an .Rnw file all the way
>>>> through to a .pdf file . . . does that sound right?  I won't be back at
>>>> my new computer for a while to try it out.
>>>
>>>> --Chris
>>>
>>>> Vincent Goulet wrote:
>>>>> Chris,
>>>>>
>>>>> Polymode is active by default in my distribution and its key binding for sweaving are different. Look up its documentation.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>>
>>>>> v.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Le 26 juin 2016 à 16:43, Christopher W. Ryan <cryan using binghamton.edu> a écrit :
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello. I just set up a new computer, running Windows 7 Professional 64-bit. I
>>>>>> installed R 3.3.1, then MikTeX 2.9, then Vince Goulet's version of emacs
>>>>>> 24.5.1 with ESS. Those are all on drive C:\, a 250 Gb solid state drive.  My
>>>>>> data files and documents are on drive E:\, a terabyte hard drive.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In emacs, when I have an .Rnw buffer open, M-n s  is met with the error message in the subject line.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sweave.sty is in C:\LOCALTEXMF\Tex\latex\Sweave
>>>>>>
>>>>>> which I listed as a root in MikTeX Admin.  And I refreshed the FNDB, both as a user and as Admin.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How can I get M-n s  (and I assume I'll have a problem with M-P as well) recognized as command to sweave my file?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --Chris
>>>>>>
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