[ESS] Ever consider changing indentation on #?

[Lionel Henry]

I don't use it either (though I tried at some point).
Any objection to change the default Martin?

Lionel


> On 6 mai 2017, at 11:44, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> I would add here that other modes in emacs except lisp don't usually respect
> this convention.
> 
>  Vitalie
> 
>>> On Fri, May 05 2017 23:52, Steven McKinney wrote:
> 
>> As an old lisp programmer I use # and ## and ### in all my code.
> 
>> ### ####################################
>> ### for code block and function headers
>> ### (this was actually functional in 
>> ###  SPLUS for auto-generating help)
>> ### ####################################
> 
>>    ## for inline comments in code, and       # brief margin notes
> 
>> I find it useful, but all things change over time.
> 
>> Steven McKinney
> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: ESS-help [mailto:ess-help-bounces using r-project.org] On Behalf Of Paul
>>> Johnson
>>> Sent: May-04-17 7:50 PM
>>> To: ess-help
>>> Subject: Re: [ESS] Ever consider changing indentation on #?
>>> 
>>> Please raise your hand if you have EVER used # to document R code in
>>> the way mentioned on the LISP coding standards page.
>>> 
>>> pj
>>> 
>>> On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 10:52 AM, Brahm, David
>>> <David.Brahm using geodecapital.com> wrote:
>>>> Since we're on the topic, is there a style to make the # comments right-
>>> justified against
>>>> "fill-column" (which is 97 for me, as that makes printouts look good)
>>> and/or the window
>>>> width?  So as you type the comment, it marches leftward.  E.g.:
>>>> 
>>>> x <- y + z                                                       # This
>>> comment ends on column 97
>>>> 
>>> 123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345
>>> 6789012345678901234567
>>>> 
>>>> -- David Brahm (brahm using alum.mit.edu)
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: ESS-help [mailto:ess-help-bounces using r-project.org] On Behalf Of
>>> Charles C. Berry
>>>> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2017 11:38 AM
>>>> To: Ista Zahn
>>>> Cc: Stephen Eglen; ess-help
>>>> Subject: Re: [ESS] Ever consider changing indentation on #?
>>>> 
>>>> On Thu, 4 May 2017, Ista Zahn wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 10:25 AM, Lionel Henry <lionel.hry using gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 4 mai 2017, at 16:22, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32 using gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I understand I can fix my init.el go avoid this, but it would be nicer
>>>>>>> for my purpose
>>>>>>> if this were in ESS itself, because I keep telling students to use it
>>>>>>> and they are put off/discouraged
>>>>>>> by this.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Emacs is for people willing to put the effort into customisation.
>>>>>> Your students are probably better off with RStudio. That said
>>>>>> I agree that good defaults are important.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> And there are a bunch of styles from which to choose a personal default.
>>>> See below.
>>>> 
>>>>> Yes, IMO Emacs/ESS isn't going to compete with Rstudio on
>>>>> out-of-the-box convenience. But we can compete on features! Put this
>>>>> in your config file
>>>>> 
>>>>> (add-hook 'ess-mode-hook
>>>>>         (lambda()
>>>>>           ;; don't indent comments
>>>>>           (setq ess-indent-with-fancy-comments nil)
>>>>>           ;; turn on outline mode
>>>>>           (setq-local outline-regexp "[# ]+")
>>>>>           (outline-minor-mode t)))
>>>>> 
>>>>> and not only will single # comments not be aligned at comment-column,
>>>>> but code folder will work too!
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> There are `off-the-shelf' styles like `Rstudio' that might satisfy Paul's
>>>> student.
>>>> 
>>>> Setting `ess-default-style' to `Rstudio' gives these settings:
>>>> 
>>>>  (RStudio
>>>>   (ess-indent-offset . 2)
>>>>   (ess-offset-arguments . open-delim)
>>>>   (ess-offset-arguments-newline . prev-line)
>>>>   (ess-offset-block . prev-line)
>>>>   (ess-offset-continued . straight)
>>>>   (ess-align-nested-calls)
>>>>   (ess-align-arguments-in-calls "function[     ]*(")
>>>>   (ess-align-continuations-in-calls)
>>>>   (ess-align-blocks)
>>>>   (ess-indent-from-lhs arguments)
>>>>   (ess-indent-from-chain-start . t)
>>>>   (ess-indent-with-fancy-comments))
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Or one can customize the `OWN' style and select it. See the
>>>> `ess-style-alist' docstring for more details.
>>>> 
>>>> HTH,
>>>> 
>>>> Chuck
>>>> 
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