[ESS] Have you considered support for PSPP?

[Tyler Smith]

Hi Frans,

If you have programmed in other languages, and are interested to learn elisp, then making a simple 'ESS-lite' for PSPP may be a manageable project. I did something along those lines for GRASS GIS. It's about 1000 lines of code, and does command completion, syntax highlighting, Eldoc tooltips, help browsing, and passing commands from script files to the interpreter. Not nearly so robust and sophisticated as ESS, but quite workable for my modest needs, and I'm no lisp wizard.

This was a really fun way to learn more about Emacs and GRASS, it might be a similar opportunity for you. I wish I had more GIS work to do so I could spend more time with my creation.

https://github.com/plantarum/grass-mode

Best,

Tyler


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On Mon, Nov 25, 2019, at 7:23 AM, A.J. Rossini via ESS-help wrote:
> actually, it was considered around 20 years ago, at the end of the 90s ...
> part of my misguided belief in universal theories of everything including
> data science UIs.  but it didn't seem very likely to survive, so very
> little effort was made.
> 
> I'm (pleasantly) surprised to hear about it again, actually.  But have
> moved on to common lisp for my outside of work activities, so don't offer
> to help.
> 
> best,
> Tony
> 
> On Mon, 25 Nov 2019, 13:06 Alex Branham via ESS-help, <
> ess-help using r-project.org> wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for the suggestion! As far as I know, no one is working on support
> > for PSPP in ESS.
> >
> > Alex
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 4:33 AM Frans Houweling via ESS-help <
> > ess-help using r-project.org> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >   I am a happy ESS user with R.
> > > PSPP, which I like very much, would benefit very much from ESS: lousy
> > > graphical interface, in terminal mode no way to use scripts for syntax
> > > interactively.
> > > I am not a lisp programmer, but I would be happy to be able to
> > > contribute in any way.
> > > Thanks
> > > frans
> > >
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